--- a/fabfile.py	Sun Feb 02 11:32:13 2014 -0600
+++ b/fabfile.py	Sun Feb 02 13:07:15 2014 -0600
@@ -58,3 +58,8 @@
         local_dir=DEPLOY_PATH.rstrip('/') + '/',
         delete=True
     )
+
+def new_post():
+    """Create a new post by answering questions interactively"""
+    local('python tools/new_post.py')
+

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tools/new_post.py	Sun Feb 02 13:07:15 2014 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+"""A script to help create new blog posts by asking the user some questions and
+then creating a new .rst file accordingly.
+
+"""
+import datetime
+import os
+import pwd
+import re
+import subprocess
+
+
+POST = """\
+{title}
+{title_under}
+
+:date: {date}
+:tags: {tags}
+:slug: {slug}
+:author: {author}
+
+"""
+
+
+def slugify(s):
+    """Return a slug from the string s."""
+
+    slug = s.lower()
+
+    # convert ellipses to spaces
+    slug = re.sub(r'\.{2,}', ' ', slug)
+
+    # flatten everything non alpha or . into a single -
+    slug = re.sub(r'[^0-9a-zA-Z\.]+', '-', slug)
+
+    # trim off leading/trailing -
+    slug = re.sub(r'^-+|-+$', '', slug)
+    return slug
+
+
+def main():
+
+    title = raw_input("Blog title: ")
+    title_under = '#' * len(title)
+
+    # Usually takes me about an hour to write a blog post:
+    anticipated_date = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(hours=1)
+    default_date = anticipated_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
+    date_str = raw_input("Publish date [{}]: ".format(default_date))
+    date_str = date_str if date_str else default_date
+
+    tags = raw_input("Tags (comma separated): ")
+
+    default_slug = slugify(title)
+    slug = raw_input("Slug [{}]: ".format(default_slug))
+    slug = slug if slug else default_slug
+
+    # Author; yes I could just hardcode my name here... ;)
+    user = os.environ.get('USER', '')
+    if user:
+        user = pwd.getpwnam(user)[4].split(',')[0]
+
+    default_author = user
+    author = raw_input('Author [{}]: '.format(default_author))
+    author = author if author else default_author
+
+    post = POST.format(title=title, title_under=title_under, date=date_str,
+            tags=tags, slug=slug, author=author)
+
+    # Create a file for the new post.
+    # This is all specific to my convention of put posts under a category
+    # directory and having the first 3 characters in the filename be a number
+    # (000-999).
+    category = raw_input('Category [Coding]: ')
+    category = category if category else 'Coding'
+
+    post_dir = os.path.join('content', category)
+    posts = sorted(os.listdir(post_dir))
+    if posts:
+        last_post_num = int(posts[-1][:3])
+        num = last_post_num + 1
+    else:
+        num = 0
+
+    new_name = '{num:03}-{slug}.rst'.format(num=num, slug=slug)
+    new_path = os.path.join('content', category, new_name)
+
+    # Write file:
+    with open(new_path, 'w') as fp:
+        fp.write(post)
+
+    # Launch editor if set
+    editor = os.environ.get('VISUAL', os.environ.get('EDITOR'))
+    if editor:
+        subprocess.call([editor, new_path])
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()