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When I decided to join the Blogging from A to Z challenge, I knew it would be a busy month! I usually post a blog once or twice a week, and here I was committing to posting Monday through Saturday for the entire month of April.
It was a lot of work, but I had a good time writing the posts, visiting other blogs, and making some new blogging buddies.
I heard some bloggers actually wrote many if not all of their blogs ahead of time. Not me. I did have a theme—creativity—and I did have some of my topics figured out. It wasn’t difficult for me to come up with each topic, though, and often I changed to different topics than the ones I had planned.
Some of the topics required research, so those took longer to write than others. But I like doing research, so that didn’t feel like a chore. And I hope my readers enjoyed the posts and maybe learned a thing or two!
I didn’t have any real technical issues with the challenge. The only thing is I did have trouble posting to some of the blogs. The A-to-Z Challenge Team suggested that bloggers turn off certain tools that restricted comments such as the captcha. Personally, I find this can be irritating when I don’t get it right the first, or second, or third time…well before that I’ve given up and moved on. On other sites, I had a hard time seeing where to leave the comment. Maybe I missed something, but on some sites, I figured out if I “liked” the blog (which I don’t mind doing per se), the comment section would appear.
I want to thank the organizers of the challenge and my co-host Alex J. Cavanaugh and his helpers listed here.
Tomorrow’s blog: some exciting news!
I wrote all my posts ahead in March. It really helped me spend more time visiting. You had some great posts and I had fun reading. Looking forward to reading more.
~Patricia Lynne~
Story Dam
Patricia Lynne, YA Author
Thanks, Patricia. I admire you guys who wrote your blogs ahead of time. That’s a good point about having more time to visit! Maybe next year… 🙂
I pre-scheduled my posts. It didn’t take too much work though, because the only thing that changed from post to post was the book illustration…
I really enjoyed your theme, and will be lurking here at your blog from time to time, to check out the posts I missed… 🙂
Writer In Transit
Thank you, Michelle! I enjoyed your posts, too. Really fun, though I was able to only come up with a few. 🙂
I wrote my posts in advance, but that didn’t matter because I changed my mind so many times. 🙂 However, it is great to have a theme, keeps things organized in our minds.
Congrats, Linda. Well done!
Silvia, that happened to me with my topics. It does help, though, to have *something* done in advance, no matter how little! Congrats to you, too! You’re the one who influenced me to join the challenge. 🙂
Congratulations on completing the challenge.
Like you, if it was too hard to leave a comment I would move on. I’m more flexible about it outside of April but during April I just don’t have the time to spend trying and trying and trying to leave my comment. It does annoy me a bit when people make you jump through hoops and then it says it’ll be posted after moderation, I can understand being cautious but if someone wants comments you’d think they’d make it easier!
Totally agree! Thanks for stopping by!