Wednesday, March 9, 2016

WOULD YOU CONSIDER AN A TO F CHALLENGE?

     So I signed up for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge - third year in a row.  A pledge to produce 26 blog posts in the month of April, one every day except Sundays, tripping lightly through the alphabet.  And I have my theme, and I love my theme.  But it's March 9th, and so far I haven't gotten past the letter B.
     As I learned from previous challenges, prewriting at least some of your posts is essential.  There's just no way to be able to commit to spending several hours every night, six nights a week, for a month, composing posts.  Life gets in the way.  It's best to prewrite as many posts as you can, as early as you can, so all you have to do on the designated day is hit "publish," sit back, and bask in your glorious productivity.
     Right.  So, as I said, I just finished prewriting my post for B.  The topic I've chosen is requiring a lot more research per post than I was anticipating.  Not going to tell you what my theme is because that's what Theme Reveal Day (March 21st) is for - duh - and if you forced me to reveal my theme before the appointed day, I would unquestionably have to kill you.  But trust me, it's a good theme.  The best thing about it, from my viewpoint, is that it involves a lot of things I don't know much about, so it satisfies my curiosity.  The worst thing about it is that it involves a lot of things I don't know much about, so it requires me to spend a lot of time - time I apparently don't have - researching and writing.
     So I have a modest proposal.  What would be so terrible about an A to F Challenge?  Six perfectly reasonable letters serving as the catalysts to six delightful and leisurely posts?  Who are They to tell me that's not good enough, not challenging enough?  Go ahead, Challenge Police, do your worst.  I ain't afeard.  In truth, I'm thinking primarily of you, the Reader.  The last thing I want is to do is overload your poor brain with more information than it can absorb.  Let's face it: you have enough stress in your life already.  Do I seem like the kind of person who would want to add to it?
     So HA HA HA.  Here it is only March 9th, and I'm already 1/3 done!  I ROCK!!!
     Now, on to C...

7 comments:

  1. I am so pleased you've signed on...A-Z or A-F, look forward to reading the posts.

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    1. Thanks, Nila! Your posts last year were among my very favorites, and I hope you'll be a repeater too!!

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  2. You always do a great job with A to Z! Looking forward to reading your posts.

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  3. Ditto! You always have such interesting things to say, alphabet or no alphabet. Thanks for visiting!

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  4. Had fun reading this - love your attitude! I didn't even know that posts could be pre-written...slogging my butt off everyday now. At 'D' already so I think I'll last till F if not Z :D

    - Durba
    https://durbadhyani.wordpress.com/

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  5. Thanks so much, Durba! And good luck with making it all the way to Z!

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