{"id":3531,"date":"2014-05-19T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:32:44","slug":"atozchallenge2014-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/atozchallenge2014-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"#AtoZchallenge2014 ~ Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

dSavannah note<\/span><\/strong>: I have been working on this post for what seems like weeks. Okay, when I consult the calendar, I guess it has<\/em> been weeks… Since before the end of the challenge on April 30 and when I posted The Questions<\/a> with my erstwhile partner, Chad Clark.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in one of my posts, I’m a teacher. End of school year arrived, with the resultant craziness. And it also meant I needed to grade my students’ Final Projects. Plus, as usually happens, lots of other stuff descended at the same time. Which meant this post got pushed off til… well… now.<\/p>\n

And I even missed the deadline to post this on the #AtoZchallenge2014 site. *shrugs* What can you do?\u00a0 So, without further, ahem, ado, here is:<\/p>\n

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\"A-to-Z_Reflection_[2014]-hdr\"<\/p>\n

If I had known that in addition to the 26 posts to write for the #AtoZchallenge2014<\/a>, they wanted a post where I write about my feelings<\/em> on the challenge, I might not have bothered. Ahem.<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

Just kidding.<\/p>\n

I think.<\/p>\n

Anywho, as you are more than well aware, unless you’ve stumbled on my blog for the first time (and welcome!), for the month of April, I participated in the challenge, writing 26 posts<\/a> corresponding with the 26 letters of the alphabet.<\/p>\n

When I learned about the Challenge and decided to participate, I had really hoped to recruit several friends, people who might help me come up with topics and then we\u2019d all write and it would be fun to see what different things we each came up with for the same idea.<\/p>\n

But it didn’t work out that way. I managed to recruit one person who stuck with it and me: Chad Clark<\/a>. As I said in his The Questions<\/a> post, he wrote 26 stories about monsters. Now, I think I\u2019m fairly well-read, and I\u2019m familiar with various mythological entities and whatnot, but\u2026 other than the \u201cR\u201d monster<\/a>, which I requested and he kindly complied, I had not heard of any of them. So, from that standpoint, the Challenge was a great success, in that I learned new things!<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>

My scribbled ideas for topics.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, the reason I wanted “help” with the topic stage was… I’m quite terrible at coming up with short ideas. Even way back in college, when I served as editor of the entertainment section of the newspaper, I always made my assistant write the headlines.<\/p>\n

Now, give me the topic, and I can write and write and write about it. I’m verbose.<\/p>\n

So, for me, the hardest part about the challenge was coming up with an idea to write about. A few of the letters? I just had no clue.<\/p>\n

But that was also part of the fun – asking friends\/followers what I should write about, or consulting my dictionary and encyclopedia, or simply racking my brain, and then writing about whatever floated to the top.<\/p>\n

Finding the time to write was a bit of a challenge, especially with school and life and everything else, but I was bound and determined to finish this challenge. And I did! Woot woot!!!<\/span><\/strong> And the best part is it re-awakened in me the love of writing blog posts. And writing in general. Of expressing myself. Of sharing how I feel or things I know or things I find interesting.<\/p>\n

Will I do the challenge again? Probably. Will I keep blogging? Heck yeah! (Maybe not every single day, tho…)<\/p>\n

And, bonus: in April, my blog got the most hits for a month since I started dSavannahRambles.\u00a0 So thank you<\/span><\/strong> to everyone who supported me and my ramblings and posted comments and shared. Y’all are the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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