My comfort zone when writing is short posts on no real schedule. As a result I have a couple of hundred outlines and fragments of posts that might well never get published, mostly because they require writing at greater length than I'm used to. But recently I've been pushing my own envelope by writing a series of longer (1500-2500 word) guest posts to an externally imposed deadline. My 'process' has been to:

a) Agonize and procrastinate all day for several weekends, b) Somehow miraculously come up with an idea and write a lot, c) Circulate a first draft to a couple of friends that nobody understands, d) Use their comments to publish a much improved post that's still of questionable intelligibility.

It's been a great experience even if just to help me clarify what's in my own head: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/blogging-residencies/#consensualhe...