For anyone who is mourning the passing of the A-Z blogging challenge, or wondered what kind of inanities I’d come up with now that I don’t have letters to motivate me, fear not. The wonderful folks who started the whole thing are hosting a reflections blog hop.
It’s been an interesting month. Like with a lot of things, when I signed up I didn’t pour too much thought into how I would get the task done. I blog five days a week anyway, and even though Saturday is the one day I never blog, I figured it wouldn’t be a big deal for four weeks.
And the kind folks I used to work for laid me off a week before the challenge started. So that meant even more free time to blog. As long as I could slog my way through the more negative repercussions of unemployment.
And then I found out that thinking up words that start with each letter is easy. Relating them to writing…took a bit of a stretch of the imagination on my part. I’m pretty sure on most days I didn’t quite follow my own themes.
It was all worth it though. The challenge was nice, but for me the best part was all the new people I met. I have more followers now *waves*. But even better, I discovered some amazing new bloggers and talent out there. I didn’t comment on every site, but I visited each and every one and I was amazed with what I discovered. The diversity in theme, blogging style, thought process, all of it, was wonderful.
In the end, I’m super happy I signed up, and thrilled I got to meet you all. I’d do it again without hesitation, and I can’t thank the organizers and participants enough.
I’ll be back tomorrow with more randomness. And with any luck the giggles and glee of the novels I’m working on. Woot!
Have an amazing week, everyone ^_^
I’m amazed and in awe that you managed to visit every blog. I didn’t get around to as many as I intended, so am trying to catch up now. Glad I’ve found you! 🙂
Hi, Loralie,
I’m glad you had a great time with the challenge. Congrats on completing.
I was fun, I just wish I had more time to hop around.
Ah yes, a reflection. If I wasn’t busy with blogiversary and giveaway I would have done a post on this too. It was an interesting month, especially since I don’t blog every day or even more than once a week some months. But the hardest part for me was going to so many difference blogs. I tried to go to my friends posts every day and then checked out new people too. It definitely was a challenge.
Now that the challenge is over I’m circling back around to really find out who is behind the blog. Look forward to reading more of you!
Really sorry you lost your job before the Challenge began! Hope you enjoyed the experience and connected with many new bloggers – and that it took your mind off of negative stuff.
Oh Loralie I hope you get a new job or you get to collect unemployment until you become a famous writer…
I cannot believe you visited everyone, I’m not giving up…
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Congratulations on completing the challenge. And a HUGE high five for visiting all 1200+ blogs. I’m still working on visiting them. Glad I got to see yours.
Wow you visited them all??? That’s amazing cause there are just so many that I feel I can’t even get through 1/3. I’m going to try though… maybe that’s my new challenge… hmmmm
Stop in & read The Challenge Never Ends, if you haven’t already:-)
You visited all of them? Wow. 😀
Congratulations on finishing the challenge!
YAY you for completing the challenge AND visiting every blog. I’ve set my own challenge to visit each and every reflections post. Not as lofty a goal but enjoyable nonetheless as I have now met you 🙂
Cheers 🙂
Congratulations on finishing! Sorry you lost your job. Hopefully things work out for you. Also sorry that I didn’t find you before now. Better late than never though.
Hi Loralie .. congratulations on finishing and visiting each and every blog .. I started that way but got a bug – not helpful. Many I skipped past too ..
I hope the unemployment aspect isn’t too much of a pain and will resolve itself fairly soon – or may be you enjoy the blogging world too much.
Look after yourself .. cheers Hilary
I’m now a follower! Guess I missed your blog during the Challenge. Sorry about the job. I can empathize since I’m starting on my 3rd year of joblessness–bad time to be unemployed.
Sounds like you approached the Challenge in the right spirit. That’s the way to go and you succeeded. Congratulations and thanking for blogging with us.
Don’t forget to pick up your Winner’s Badge at my site.
Lee
Tossing It Out
WOW. I’m so totally impressed that you visited everyone! Kudos to you! And here I am with this: Shannon @ The Warrior Muse and I are joining forces in another challenge. We’re going to visit and comment at each of the participants, starting with the reflections post. We hope you’ll join us!
Tina @ Life is Good which is so obviously not something you need to join since you already did it! We don’t have our badge made yet, but be sure to check back with us at the end of the summer (when we hope to have accomplished what you’ve already done…can you tell I’m jealous??? Sigh. Hope to see you around!