How Blogs Can Help

I don't actually like the idea of using blog posts to generate ideas and texts for my first formal paper. I like to use the good old fashioned paper and pencil method to let my ideas/thoughts flow naturally onto the paper wherever they may happen to land. Perhaps I can use a modified version of this method in my blog posts, but it seems impractical to me. Still, I will attempt to stay positive. Surely there are benefits to letting my ideas begin to take form in somewhat of an open format. I think it would be much easier to cut and paste ideas in a logical order once I've come up with a plan for the structure of my paper, so having all my ideas, short sentences, or rough drafts available would make building the paper come together more fluently in the end.