I’m back! Miss me? Just kidding. Welcome to my reflection on this year’s blogging experience. This year’s theme was: A is for Aspirations: Blogging hopes, dreams, and goals, and I believe I did a good job of at least coming close to its intentions.
I’ve participated in this blogging adventure almost every year since its inception. It isn’t always easy to get the blogs done and for the last couple of years, I’ve had surgery pop into the mix, but on the whole, it has been a wonderful and valuable experience for me.
Thanks to the organisers for providing the jpg banners and daily letter images which I’ve used every year although I’ve noticed that not all bloggers that I visited did.
Using memes to support my journaling throughout the blogging helped since it allowed me to focus on more than one word in my ramblings. Hunting for the appropritae memes was fun, too, but there were days and letters that were harder than others–looking at you here X and Z!
Since my surgery involved my eyes, it wasn’t always easy to be able to stay on top my reading of other blogs, but I’m pretty well caught up now.
My goal for this year was to engage three new followers, and I exceeded that goal by two. I followed them in return and hope to be able to keep doing so throughout the coming year. I enjoyed not only their posts but their comments on mine. A couple of times, we had a few back and forth discussions. too. I loved that aspect of things.
So where do we go from here? Well, I intend to continue the challenge next year, God willing, and without any surgical issues. I will make it a point to visit the A to Z blog site http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/ at least once a month to see what’s new. It can’t hurt to stay abreast of things. I do participate in the Insecure Writers Support Group monthly post on the first Wednesday of the month and I often learn new things there, too. https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html I was gratified to see that they reviewed one of my books last year, which made me feel as if someone out there cared about my work.
Through this blog challenge, I’ve met people I now consider friends, people living half a world or more away from me who’ve become part of my life. In that repect alone, I consider myself a winner.
To everyone out there who managed to complete this year’s challenge, congratulations. maybe I’ll see three more of you next year.
Living the Dream 