Lorelle on WordPress is running a series under the title of Blog Struggles. The latest in the series Ideas and Drafts offers some excellent tips on getting ideas down in a manageable manner and shaping the process from there. I use a single file to note my ideas down, actually it is a google document as that means no matter where I am work or home I have access to it. Each section represents an idea I am working on and I date when I started the draft. If it is not written in 12 weeks I delete it as it means I am not interested enough in the topic. I also toss into the same document links and associated notes that I may have found while reading my RSS reader. I may want to think further about them or I may not have time to write at that particular moment. I date these too! Since I write 2 blogs often the list is a strange mix but it works for me. I have yet to manage the snappy post title however. They simply do not happen.

Lorelle has loads of useful tips and advice about developing ideas for, organising your writing, writing content and managing a blog in this series and it is worth following some of the link at the bottom of the article.