I very often say, I am am going to write about THIS, or I am am going to write about THAT, and then do neither, writing about something completely different.

When it comes down to it, I read too much, and I think too much. Oh, there are other factors, like getting sick or injured (far too much of both over the last year), or keeping up with breaking news.

But, at the beginning of the "work" day, I write whatever is on my mind. While planning a writing schedule helps me to a certain extant, promising an in-depth reply to a comment does not. That does weigh on my mind, as for a good chunk of my life, I felt I would stick to my my word on any given thing I said, and I did exactly that. Now, broken promises weigh on my mind, but do not drive my action. I don't know if that is due to fatigue, or simply too many broken promises on other people's part, but I just don't do as I did before.

Instead, because I read and think too much, I am constantly revising what I want to write about. I also have a huge database of past writing, from grad school or social media or even from past writing here, that I can drop in when I don't feel like writing; I sometimes use past Steemit articles to re-ignite the thinking process. I find I usually enjoy reading my own writing. I don't know if that's a sign of narcissism or not LOL. I can, pretty easliy, write a Not-Quite-The Ministry-of-Truth-News post. All that takes is a little searching in my feeds, and a bit of snark (which is even easier to come by considering the idiots that produce #fakenews these days). But I feel like I'm cheating when I do that.

So if I do have time to read something, or to think, before I sit down to write on a plan, I often start writing a "better" version. I think what I am aiming at are "perfect" posts, in which I lay out an argument clearly and in as few words as possible. And that is impossible. Inevitably, I will find a point that should be included, or something I had wrong before, or a line of argument that needs further exploring, or...or, or, or. At the end of the day, no one can explain any subject in one post. There is always more to consider. No one has all the answers, and if they claim they do, then they are liars. We can only project our own knowledge or share someone else's knowledge, and there is too much anti-knowledge out there. That doesn't even address different base values amongst people. That can lead to here is a post on another subject completely, but it does have something to do with my ultimate post posting.

Reading is easy for me, and I enjoy it. That leads to putting off writing. And when I read, I think, which also leads to putting off writing. And that is a constant working condition of mine before any of life's distractions come into play. Hell, I haven't written any fiction in almost two years, and while I have stories to write, they are secondary in importance to what needs to be be taken from mind and put to webpage.

Basically, if I have said, I'm going to answer this in a post, than a post is a'comin'. It might not be tomorrow, but I haven't forgotten it.

...and no, it won't be perfect ;>