Blogging A to Z Recap

Last month, I participated in the Blogging A to Z challenge. It was a last minute decision – literally made the day the challenge began.

I had created a WordPress account years ago, and did nothing with it, so the first challenge, of course, was retrieving the password.

I have to confess, I scoffed a bit at the challenge. How hard could it be to just jot down a few paragraphs every day? Apparently, pretty hard, judging by the number of days I posted close to midnight.

The hardest part on most days was simply choosing a topic. Once I’d settled on the subject matter, the posts came about pretty quickly. Several posts were inspired by news stories. Some by things that happened to be going on in my life that day. Some days, I would google “words that begin with __” and scan the list until something came to mind – particularly on days when 11:00 PM hit and I hadn’t written anything. That’s how I came up with K.

Some of the participants had an underlying theme to their month of blog posts. I will do that in the future. The first few days, I managed to include original photographs, and thought that would be an underlying theme, even if no one noticed it. That stopped at G.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that people I didn’t know personally were following me. I hope to keep up the exercise, not every night, but a few times a week. Let’s see if I keep the followers and gain a few more.

The new challenge is to come up with some sort of underlying theme. Instead of me just rambling, I’d like to come up with something consistent to ramble about.

Open to suggestions.