Blogger's Block

I have just spent over two hours sitting here noodling with words, trying to get a very simple idea expressed in a way that I am happy with. Less than two paragraphs of text, and I just can't get it to the point where I'm very happy with it, or even agree with it.

I think maybe my writing method is taking too many lessons from my reading method, which these days is to scan a page for interesting information, reading a sentence here or there. This probably comes from my life spent reading technical manuals, where what you're doing is hunting for information, rather than trying to understand an argument or learn something deep. Anyway, my writing method has apparently now devolved to writing single sentences that sound good on their own and then trying to rearrange them into an article. Let me tell you, that doesn't work very well. Maybe I need to take a class, or maybe I need to write more, or maybe I need to read more, or maybe I need to stop writing.