As I browsed some of the other A-Z participating blogs with theme reveals, many of them were sharing links to their past A-Z posts. So I guts-upped and here are mine (on more than one website). Most will not allow you to post comments, sorry about that. It’s for the spammers. And please excuse any missing images on the older posts!
2012 – 10×10
This was my first ever A to Z and I had only written some online flash fiction at this point. So for this time I created a theme of 10×10, a maximum of ten sentences with a minimum of 100 words. I started with a list of random words, words that just popped into mine. Then I found a royalty-free related photo for the story. When it was complete, I compiled all the stories into a self-published book. You can get it for free by subscribing to my newsletter.
2014 – Spanish/English words
I decided to make it a bit tougher this time around:
1) I chose 26 words but they are Spanish words.
2) Each of the 26 words has an English translation that starts with the same letter.
3) I searched for free-to-use-commerically photos for inspiration.
2017 – Oh, the places we will go!
Still on my author blog, I went for my life and chronicled a variety of places we had visited since we met in 2008.
2018 – Tiny Tales
Another round of flash fiction with royalty photos but I used two words for each flash story. How did I chose the words? First I brought up a noun list for each letter, then averted my eyes, scrolled the mouse down, stopped and double-clicked. That was the word! The second word was chosen the same way but from a dictionary list of words.
2018 – The A to Z of Goldendoodles
This was done on our personal blog and featured our two almost one year old Goldendoodles, Cooper and Murphy.
2019 – Micro Fiction
This time around I went with micro flash fiction, using 300 words or less, inspired by selected words along with a photo for inspiration. The words were chosen in reverse order from a lesson plan page. (For example, for the letter A it was the 26th word on the list, for Z it was the 1st word on the list)
2023 – A to Z of Small Delights, Simple Pleasures, & Significant Memories
This one was a daily snapshot of my random thoughts and memories connected to the words selected for each letter.
2023 – My Life in Black and White
Done on another personal site, I chose to share a B&W photo I have taken for each of the letters, A to Z.
Thank you.