Maybe setting an arbitrary length limit would work. I don't blog - I'd like to - largely because of the same feeling you're describing. But I use Twitter, som

Maybe setting an arbitrary length limit would work. I don't blog - I'd like to - largely because of the same feeling you're describing. But I use Twitter, sometimes posting random thoughts there (either in single tweets or in small chains). That's a severe length limit, of course, but it does make me more confident posting things without spending a lot of time thinking about them and elaborating. I think this is a big part of the reason for Twitter's success. For a blog, the limit would have to be considerably higher, but still low enough that you relatively quickly get to a point where you're 'done' and can't really add more (without sacrificing something else, at least). Alternative suggestion: write a script to automatically syndicate your HN comments to your blog :)