I’ve been riffing off the concept of conquering writer’s block by lowering my standards, even though I don't believe what I've experienced this week is technically writer's block.
This morning I used my private stream-of-consciousness journal to write a post about a basic concept, and knocked out 550 words in 20 minutes. The piece will need a second draft, but the idea is now on paper. I could feel it taking shape as I typed.
This might be my initial approach to every post from now on: take a topic from my pile of topics, riff on it for as long there’s something to be said, note what’s valuable, write it again from those chunks. I've amassed dozens of topics against which I've written nothing at all, so I should definitely try this technique with as many of them as I need to. Perhaps that's how I'll come to understand which topics have sufficient merit to end up as published pieces: I assume I'll also come up with new topics as I write, or even find the topic shifting as I progress. That's all positive, and I do think it will complement the way I work.