I actually feel my writing has deteriorated over the past few years. Part of the problem might be my limited vocabulary. I can pick up new words effortlessly as

I actually feel my writing has deteriorated over the past few years. Part of the problem might be my limited vocabulary. I can pick up new words effortlessly as I encounter them, but I rarely manage to put them in use. I spend a lot of time just looking for that one word that could convey my meaning succinctly, but I inevitably end up writing three sentences in place of that one word. I face a completely different problem when I'm writing for an audience (my audience being the 3 people that read my blog). As I write this comment, words are coming naturally to me, but they completely evade me when I sit down to write a blog post. The result is a bunch of mediocre, incomplete blog posts in my 'Drafts' folder. Needless to say, I need practice. One of these days, I should take some time off from writing code ...