Bloggers suffer burnout
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the closure of Whiskey Bar. Wired has picked up on the story, as part of a larger article about blogger burnout.
I haven’t really felt this pressure, because I’m nowhere near as productive or popular as the bloggers in the article. I write when I feel like it, going dark for weeks at a time when travel or mood dictates. I think the key for me is that, while I love you all dearly, my readership is not very large. I average between 1,200 - 1,500 page views a day, a couple of hundred of which are me and the fabulous A. As such, the world doesn’t end when I go missing for a little while.
There’s freedom in this obscurity. Without the pressures of the mass audience, all you have is your mother asking you why you don’t write any more. And that has been going on since way before the web.
