I've taken a brief leave from blogging to focus on getting the next research document done. (Plus, I took a few days off.) I didn't feel that I could afford the luxury of blogging until, with God as my witness, I finished the next draft.

Writing in the Forrester style is a lot different than writing a blog. In fact, they're almost completely different animals.

Learning a new style can be tough...
Every new analyst at Forrester has to learn how to fit his or her thoughts into a framework designed for a specific purpose: make the document easy to read, at whatever level of attention the reader wants to give it. It's a foreign concept for people who learned, way back in our school days, a more linear writing technique.

Take this blog post, for example. I'm going from point A to point B, which connects to point C. You have to follow the chain of argument, if you want to understand why the author has reached a particular conclusion, foreshadowed in the introduction, and proclaimed with confidence at the end.