Back during blogging’s glory days between about 2004 and 2011, people new to the medium used to ask me what it took to write a successful blog.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I told them “stick to a schedule”.\u00a0 Didn’t matter if it was two pieces a day, or once a week, or twice a month – but pick a schedule and stick to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
And I’ve largely done that for the past 23 years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
But you might have noticed – output’s been a little light this past few months.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Part of it has been priorities.\u00a0 I got laid off from my day job in February.\u00a0 Which, given that I approach job-hunting with maniacal intensity, meant rather\u00a0less\u00a0<\/em>time for writing than normal; when I’m on the beach, I start grinding out resumes pretty much as soon as I have my coffee.\u00a0<\/p>\n And then, as I noted last March, I fortuitously wound up getting picked up at\u00a0HotAir.com,\u00a0<\/em>writing with my old friends Ed Morrissey and David Strom.\u00a0 \u00a0I get paid for what I write there.\u00a0 Not a\u00a0ton<\/em>, and certainly not enough to pay my bills – and it’s a slightly different kind <\/em>of blogging than what I do here.\u00a0 But it’s a nice side hustle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n To go with my other side hustles – the NARN and my band.\u00a0<\/p>\n Which made for a spring and summer of cranking out stuff for\u00a0Hot Air,\u00a0<\/em>band gigs, and above all cranking out resumes.\u00a0 416 of them in 19 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Given a choice between feast and famine, I’ll take the feast.\u00a0 I landed a day job about a month back.\u00a0 A contracting job, limited to 40 hours a week.\u00a0 The bills are paid and then some.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n And then I connected with a startup which eats up a chunk of my spare time during evenings and weekends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n So, commitment-wise I’ve been trying to stretch two pounds of sausage casing to cover five pounds of sausage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Oh, yeah – and I’m coming down with a summer cold.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Shot in the Dark\u00a0<\/em>isn’t going anywhere.\u00a0 That habit I told everyone to develop back in the first paragraph still barks at me every morning at 5AM, just as it did int 2003.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s been a constant thing for me for what feels like a lifetime.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s also my show prep – and God and Salem willing, the NARN isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.\u00a0 We’ve got a country to save.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyway – output’s not going to stay down.\u00a0 And I’ve got a project or two that might just rear their heads in the near future, after I’ve gotten over the whole “going from unemployed to overemployed” thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n But pardon a brief slowdown while I take some zinc and maybe try to get six hours of sleep tonight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back during blogging’s glory days between about 2004 and 2011, people new to the medium used to ask me what it took to write a successful blog.\u00a0\u00a0 I told them “stick to a schedule”.\u00a0 Didn’t matter if it was two pieces a day, or once a week, or twice a month – but pick a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89849,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89846\/revisions\/89849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}