You must know that you’re at your best when you’re channeling your keen intellect and not doing a Glenn Reynolds or Ed Morrissey, two similarly smart people who have become caricatures of themselves.

I have two daily writing projects (one blog, one gaming related) and one every-other-day blog that I write. I recently started working again and the bus/train commute + time at work has left me very little time when I get home to sit down and write something of quality.

Thanks for taking the time to evaluate your work and share your thoughts and ideas with us, Rick!

And what do you get for it? A bunch of assholes (like me) who don’t pay you a dime but still snipe at you just the same. All the hassle of writing for a newspaper or magazine with a fraction of the reward.

The truth is there are only so many things to write about or comment on. So in the effort to fill that blog hole you go around and around on the same stuff until you can’t stand the sound of your own voice. The more you labor to fill that blog hole the more your readers take you for granted. You’re in a spiral of diminishing returns.

This is why longtime bloggers end up as nutty, obsessed and emotionally fragile as Dean Esmay or Andrew Sullivan.