November 10th, 2010
Writing a regular op-ed column is hard. It’s there every week, waiting for you, unremitting. You can’t hide your bad stuff and even your best stuff disappears after 48 hours. More than any other kind of writing you have to cling to the dictum that they can’t all be home runs. (Though during his golden era, George Will had a slugging percentage of something like .863. He was ungodly.)
The only thing you can control completely is your effort. You shouldn’t mail it in. And if you are being lazy, you should at least make an effort to hide it.
Maureen Dowd has just written her second column in two months in which she basically gives the space over to one of her siblings.
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