Whew! The A to Z Blog Challenge is complete, and I did it! Somehow I managed to get through all 26 letters of the alphabet. I won’t say all my posts were great, but they were done. I’m glad I did it.<\/p>\n

The organizers have asked the participants to write their reflections today.<\/p>\n

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• I am very glad I did this. I learned that I CAN keep a deadline and I CAN keep up.<\/span><\/li>\n
• I did NOT lose my love of blogging, in fact it was reinforced through this exercise.<\/li>\n
• I enjoyed blogging daily, but having a theme made me realize I missed the “spontaneity” I normally blog with. I am definitely a “by the seat of your pants” writer.<\/span><\/li>\n
• I neglected my regular writing, which was unfortunate.<\/li>\n
• I really enjoyed meeting other bloggers.<\/span><\/li>\n
• I am sorry I did not respond to comments as I had planned, I really failed on that.<\/li>\n
• I loved the interaction and getting comments, and I tried to do the same to others. I was surprised at how much I liked that (I found that I do want recognition more than I realized).<\/span><\/li>\n
• Will I participate next year? I don’t know. If so, I will give it more thought and perhaps a different theme. Doing a word a day was fun, but admittedly got a bit challenging after while.<\/li>\n
• Blogging daily would not have been possible if there wasn’t the pre-scheduling option available.<\/span><\/li>\n
• The amount of people participating was staggering, and I’m not sure I would have signed up if I had been later in doing so. Once it went past 500 I knew there was no way I could keep up.<\/li>\n
• Perhaps next year the challenge could be divided up into subcategories to make it easier to target visits.<\/span><\/li>\n
• The best part of this was finding some new “friends” through this that I know I will keep in touch with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Thank you Lee and Alex and everyone else, this has been a great experience. I still haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to do on this blog – but it probably won’t be daily! Or at least not writing every day. I will continue to do a picture for Sunday reflections, and maybe continue the Wordless Wednesday pictures that I have found others doing.<\/p>\n

  Have a happy Monday – it’s a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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