The 2023 April A to Z Blog Challenge is over and I finished! I hope you had fun reading my thoughts and I doubly hope you shared yours in the comments. As to reflections, this is tough. I have done the challenge several years but it was more than a few years back. Social media has changed. When I started, Twitter was king and I made great group of friends there, many from the 2012 challenge. Now Twitter is a mess, Instagram is owned by Facebook, and there seems to be no best way to share.
I had hoped to find more readers via this year’s challenge as well as some good blogs for me to follow. I found several I think I will continue following and made at least one new writing friend. Because I kept my posts short and had them all done in advance, most of my time was spent reading and commenting on 35-40 other blogs (ones I felt I would enjoy). That took about four hours a day and included my commenting back on my own blog’s commenters. Unfortunately, that meant my fiction writing had to be put on the back burner.
Will I do this again next? I highly doubt it but you never can tell. I may do it on our personal blog next time around and minimize the number of blogs I follow. We shall see.
Here is my final list – click to read any!
Thank you.
You’ve been visiting 40 blogs daily? You absolutely rock!
Congrats on completing not one, but two challenges!
https://thethreegerbers.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-z-blogging-challenge-2023-reflection.html
I started with 40, went down as low as 35, now at 38. Some will get dropped over the next month as I assume some folks will drop mine. Now to divide my time between four blogs & writing my novel.
Our Prime Years – Life in Tennessee
DB McNicol – author | traveler | shutterbug
My Snap Memories – My Life in Photographs
Hopping thru my day – Personal Thoughts, Memories, & Ramblings
I enjoyed your lists, Donna. Taking time to reflect on life’s delights and pleasures is such an uplifting thing, and inspiring others to do it was wonderful.
So glad we connected – that’s the best part of A-Z, making new friends.
Wow, you did this post, too? You sure are super fast, Donna. And following 35 – 40 blogs every day is quite a feat. Hope to keep meeting you, Donna. It was fun reading your posts and seeing those lovely b/w pictures.
Wish you the best!
I wrote the basic post early on, then added my thoughts as to how it went. Now to try to keep up with four blogs AND work on my mystery book. LOL!
Our Prime Years – Life in Tennessee
DB McNicol – author | traveler | shutterbug
My Snap Memories – My Life in Photographs
Hopping thru my day – Personal Thoughts, Memories, & Ramblings
Wow, again!
Wish you the best, Donna!
Congratulations on achieving the A-Z Challenge!!! I thoroughly enjoyed connecting with your blog and look forward to continuing my visits and reading more!
It will be fun to continue the blogs I enjoyed the most (last count was 38) and see where they go. Some will stop blogging, some will change content, some will remain somewhat the same. At least based upon my previous A-Z challenges. Me – I’ll be trying to keep up with 4 blogs (some with similar content, some changing) AND writing on my current mystery book.
Our Prime Years – Life in Tennessee
DB McNicol – author | traveler | shutterbug
My Snap Memories – My Life in Photographs
Hopping thru my day – Personal Thoughts, Memories, & Ramblings
Congrats on finishing, and thank you for your comments on my blog.
And thank you! I look forward to the future posts!
Our Prime Years – Life in Tennessee
DB McNicol – author | traveler | shutterbug
My Snap Memories – My Life in Photographs
Hopping thru my day – Personal Thoughts, Memories, & Ramblings
40 other bloggers! You are busy. I’ve loved reading your list of simple pleasures.
I started with 40, went as low as 35, now up to 38. I know some will get dropped as the month progresses, they always do. Now my challenge is to keep up 4 blogs AND continue writing my mystery book.
Our Prime Years – Life in Tennessee
DB McNicol – author | traveler | shutterbug
My Snap Memories – My Life in Photographs
Hopping thru my day – Personal Thoughts, Memories, & Ramblings
Congratulations on finishing the A to Z! You picked a lovely theme and I enjoyed doing a little compare-and-contrast with your joys.
Alphabet of Alphabets: Zebras
Thank you!
You are a busy lady and clearly very well organised. I have enjoyed reading your A to Z posts and finding much with which to agree. Congratulations!
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed the posts.
Pleased I found you via the AtoZ. Look forward to more posts from you.
I can only echo the other commenters, many of whom have become familiar names to me this year – 35-40 blogs a day – no wonder it took four hours!!! Well I too enjoyed your lists and they made me think and be grateful for so much in life. I have enjoyed getting to know you and I do hope that you will participate next year in some form – meanwhile – see you on the road Donna…
Thanks – and I’m already trying to NOT think about next year (yet). Got 3 books to get written between now and Sept. LOL! Then it’s on to a European vacation for 2 months.
Three books! I’ll have a bottle of whatever you are drinking Donna…
LOL! All are shorter novella length and cozy mysteries. Much easier than my police procedurals.