From A-Z: A Reflection

So, if you've been reading my blog in April, you already know that I posted A LOT. I'm usually more of a once a week blogger, but I decided to participate in the A to Z blogging challenge. I liked the idea of creating a thematic alphabet (mine was evocative words) and the whole social networking bonanza surrounding it seemed like it might be good for me.

And it was! Part of the intended deal is for all us participants to read each other. So, I looked at least five blogs per day.  That in itself was an education in how diverse blogs and bloggers are. I saw many design choices I admired and read many interesting things on topics I might never have sought out otherwise.  Fascinating.

I found some new people to follow. A few you might want to check out are: Marlene Moss of On Writing and Riding; Chad A. Clark of The Baked Scribe; Holli Moncrieff of A Life Less Ordinary; Colin D Smith's self-titled blog; and Chris of The Pedestrian Writer.

Of course, as someone who hopes to eventually give up her day job and make it as a writer, I was also interested in building my networks. And I did. My twitter following grew substantially. I gained some direct followers of my blog, too. I'm hopeful that some of the people I made contact with will stay in my life and I will hear from them long after this exercise has ended.

So here's a round-up of all the posts I did for this challenge. I'm proud of all of these posts and  I'm very proud of some of these posts. It was good for me as a writer to explore the myriad of topics brought up by these evocative words. As E.M. Forster said, "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"

A: Ambivalence
B: Benefit
C: Compromise
D: Drama
E: Elegance
F: Frenetic
G: Gross
H: Haunted
I: Individualism or My Inner John Wayne
J: Juxtapose
K: Kleptomanic
L: Languid
M: Mendacity
N: Negligent
O: Obsequious
P: Pulp
Q: Querulous
R: Rapacious
S: Seder
T: Tegucigalpa
U: Utopia
V: Villain
W: Wendigo
X: Xenophobia
Y: Yield
Z: Zealot