The title for the post comes from the track ‘In Every Sunflower‘ by the excellent Bell X1, featured on their album ‘Music In Mouth’.

My reason for choosing is simple, but has nothing to do with books.

The fact is, my blogs have more draft posts than posts. In recent weeks, I’ve found myself starved for time here and there so I start a blog post, save it as a draft, but forget to come back to it or decide to hold off publishing the post until it is just right.

It is handy in a way, I can get so far into a post and save off as a draft (a feature which if rumours are to be believed, will be seriously enhanced in the release of version 2.6 of Wordpress thanks to the addition of post revisions as well as drafts), returning to complete the post at my leisure.

If an idea for a post springs into my head and I don’t happen to have my notepad and pen nearby (vital tools for a blogger or designer), I’ll fire open Wordpress, add a title to a new post, get all my ideas down in some kind of point form, then save to a draft.

Of course, it’s the coming back to publish the posts that is the problem. I had commented on a post earlier in the week (thanks Candy) how procrastination can be a nightmare when it comes to blogging and working online and I’ve got a full post coming out of draft form soon enough for that too. At times I feel the draft feature increases the opportunity for posts to be put “on the long finger” or gives rise to a new level of procrastination in writing.

On the flip side, it’s great to be able to log into your blog and see a massive array of posts and ideas building up, just waiting to bubble to the surface.

Want to grab a copy of the track? Click the link below to pick up the MP3 from Amazon. If you listen to the one track, you’ll want the whole album. Fantastic band and a fantastic album in the shape of ‘Music In Mouth’.

In Every Sunflower

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