>>need to get back in the swing of blogging,<<

You might find some inspiration in Recurring Posts. Lots of bloggers pick one or a few favorite topics to visit regularly. That makes it easy to maintain activity without running up your workload.

>>I've been so used to just dumping thoughts on twitter!<<

People do it here on Dreamwidth too, it's just not the majority trend. I made a post about Tweet-like Tidbits on Dreamwidth over on twitter_refugees for folks who wish to continue making and consuming that type of content here. Not everything has to be a page-long post. It's all fine. :D