I miss it! There I said it. I didn't realize it would have this affect on me, but I miss it.
These are my thoughts for my 2012 A to Z Challenge Reflections Post
I liked having to come up with something to say/write based on a letter of the alphabet.
I give you one further... early on in the Challenge I learned that I had to write my post before reading someone else's.
I read someone else's first once-- silly me I didn't realize because I was participating in a blog hop and didn't realize what I was reading until I was almost finished. Then I wondered whether or not I would have come up with that same word.
[I do have to admit... I did not get in as much reading as I would have liked to... but- 75% is better than nothing.]
As I visited other blogs that were participating in the Challenge I was taken aback with all the different themes. Yes.. these people had a theme-within-a-theme!
When I first read these post of themes within the theme [A to Z] I honestly thought "What are they crazy? ... What are these people doing? Isn't having to come up with a word challenging enough?"
I am here to tell you ... I get it now! wink, wink. Seriously... there were blogs whose theme were based on threatened animals, another wrote a terrific piece and broke it down into twenty-six segments, and yet another on on ferries (to mention a few).
Best part of the A to Z Challenge was all the great blogs I read and the people behind them! I met some great people and some FABULOUS writers!
I do have to say there were plenty of times that I felt very intimidated by what I was reading... they were submitted by PUBLISHED AUTHORS!!
There is a reason these writers are published! What talent. Then there was little ol' me amongst these GIANTS! Regardless... this has been a fabulous experience!
I truly enjoyed this challenge. Quite honestly, I happened to come across this challenge by accident. The best part was that it had not started yet! - it was a day before the challenge was to start.
I had fun with it and stayed true to myself. This is not to say that I did not have some days that I came up with a "word" late in the hour... but I got them all in!!
In full disclosure I must say that I was already posting everyday.- this was half the challenge to many. The only change I made other than incorporating the challenge into my blog, was to post earlier in the day.
This is how crazy I am... I am already looking forward to next year's challenge, hoping that I too can come up with a cool theme within a theme scenario.
Best part of the A to Z Challenge was all the great blogs I read and the people behind them! I met some great people and some FABULOUS writers!
I do have to say there were plenty of times that I felt very intimidated by what I was reading... they were submitted by PUBLISHED AUTHORS!!
There is a reason these writers are published! What talent. Then there was little ol' me amongst these GIANTS! Regardless... this has been a fabulous experience!
I truly enjoyed this challenge. Quite honestly, I happened to come across this challenge by accident. The best part was that it had not started yet! - it was a day before the challenge was to start.
I had fun with it and stayed true to myself. This is not to say that I did not have some days that I came up with a "word" late in the hour... but I got them all in!!
In full disclosure I must say that I was already posting everyday.- this was half the challenge to many. The only change I made other than incorporating the challenge into my blog, was to post earlier in the day.
This is how crazy I am... I am already looking forward to next year's challenge, hoping that I too can come up with a cool theme within a theme scenario.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi
Blessings,
31 days to go...
... for a, l & c. You are my sunshine(s).
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