Wow, so that's how it works...

From Jane Hamsher who along with ReddHedd and whatever pack of guestbloggers they have is truly a fabulous blogger comes the secret of quality blogging:

plunk myself down with a cup of tea, a thick stack of documents and a highlighter, a bunch of notebooks and a pile of stickies and some flow charts and proceed to fill up margins with elaborate notes I will never be able to decipher

Golly, sounds more detailed than my method throwing up whatever sticks in as little time as possible.