I recognize many of the monikers in these comments. Milblogging filled a 10 month deployment to Iraq and then some. I stopped blogging regularly 2 years or so after I redeployed, and my last post was almost two years ago. I was one of the lucky few with *dozens* of readers.

I can see blogging as a gateway to more serious writing, but I write all the time on my job, so I didn’t really need the practice, just the topic and motivation. Once both were exhausted, I was done.

I still write and will, that’s tied up with finding and giving voice to what sustains me. I hope to return to blogging at some point, but will carefully avoid getting all wrapped up in the search for traffic. That drove the love of it away. And didn’t help get any of the writing done.