A to Z Reflections

What possessed me?

This was what April looked like when I signed up for A to Z:

Grad class on Mondays

Poetry class on Thursdays

Full time job

Critiquing 2 manuscripts for the NE-SCBWI conference

Facilitate a SIG on blogging for the NE-SCBWI

Packing for move

Looking for jobs

       I was already blogging once a week because I knew that if I wanted to write, I had to make time for it.  This has meant writing during lunch and sometimes in the morning.  I knew A to Z meant I’d be setting up my posts and commenting on as many blogs as possible daily.

It was all because of a shiny idea: 80s music.

Well, when I like an idea, I can’t NOT do it.

       So I signed up.  I wrote the posts in March.  My plan was to write them leisurely.  After all, I had plenty of time and it wasn’t like I was writing War and Peace.  Yet, somehow I found myself rushing to write those last posts at the end of March.

Bright spots:

Lots of new blogging friends.  I have about 40 new followers.  YaY!

It was good camaraderie.  And sometimes, commiserating. 

       I’ve thought of fun ideas for 2013.  But I already have a few people who will remind me NOT to do it next year.

       I miss my blogging buddies from March.  Some of them didn’t visit much or at all.  I didn’t have much time for bloggers outside of the A to Z Challenge if they didn’t find me.  I felt bad, but it was the only way I could keep up. 

       I’m happy to report that I did write all but five days in April.  Though a couple of days I had to skip fiction in favor of writing responsibilities that were conference related  and job search related (like taking 3 ½ hours to set up my application on schoolspring.com).

And now that it’s been a week, I’m no longer burned out and I’m ready to write posts and visit blogs again.

Have a happy week!

Love, Theresa

P.S. Thank you to the host   Arlee Bird 

 and   Stephen Tremp 

 and  Alex Cavanaugh

for co-hosting and visiting my blog.