Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that's exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your post ideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than to actually get your thoughts down. Being somewhat experienced at this blogging thing, your Lifehacker editors have pinpointed a few tools and tricks that make our posts go faster and smoother. After the jump, we round up 10 of them.

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Blogger Glen Stansberry says that ideas need a place and time to grow—like a virtual incubator. Capture your ideas as soon as you have them in a safe, consistent place, and prune and review them over time as you work towards putting them into action. The project incubator concept employs several GTD techniques and I can personally attest to its effectiveness: the seeds of most feature stories that appear here on Lifehacker get planted in our editorial idea incubator (a wiki), which I was just editing before finding this article. Where do you incubate your brilliant ideas? Tell us in the comments.

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Generate ideas—potentially a LOT of ideas—with a all-in-one-session "list of 100": a list of creative ideas, solutions, etc. about any topic you've been wanting to tackle. Self-improvement site Litemind has more:

The goal of a List of 100 is to take your mind by surprise...With a List of 100 you tend to get more unexpected ideas, because you catch your subconscious off guard, not giving it any time for its behind-the-scenes editing.

The main tip to remember with this is you've got to do it all in one sitting; otherwise, your creative mind doesn't get fully engaged. This sounds like a super way to hash out something you've been struggling with, as well as generate creative ideas.