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Wednesday 6 May 2015

Note to self: Must be a better blogger - an A-Z Challenge Reflections/IWSG post




I realise I'm kind of cheating here, but I'm rolling my IWSG and A-Z Challenge Reflection posts all up into one little message. They fit into the same bracket at least, and it kind of saves some time and space.

The A-Z Challenge was a spur of the moment thing for me, having decided against it this year. It was less than a week before it started that my theme idea came to me along with the post titles. I managed to keep up (mostly) with the occasional double-posting, and I was only a day late with some of them.

It didn't seem to be as hard to keep going as I imagined it would, which to me suggests that I do still enjoy this blogging malarkey, and the month went by quicker than anticipated. It came at a time when I was teetering on the edge of giving up, but now it's boosted my confidence enough to keep it going.

The one area where I failed massively was in keeping up with replying to comments, and visiting other blogs. This is something I've struggled with a lot in the past, never seeming to have the time to sit and read through other peoples stuff and to comment. 

I know this is such a huge part of the blogging community, and I certainly don't expect people to comment here if I'm not returning the compliment. I have huge thanks for those few who did comment on my Challenge posts, I think I didn't do too badly at replying to your comments and it's on my to-do list to check out all of your posts for the Challenge too.

This is going to be the lesson I take away from this Challenge, and I'm hoping to improve my blogging etiquette and hopefully make some more friends in the process.

Thank you for listening!

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If you want to check out more people reflecting on their A-Z journey, you can find them on the link-up list here.

If you want to find out more about the Insecure Writers Support Group, they have an excellent web page here with everything you could ever need in this crazy game.



5 comments:

  1. Oh, I understand about keeping up comments on your blog. But not only that, you also have to at least visit the commentor's blog and leave a comment too. Sometimes I wonder how other bloggers (with a huge amount of comments) manage.

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    1. I agree, Lidy, and thank you for commenting. I visit some blogs and see the same names commenting on all of them, I envy that they can fit it all in. We can only do our best I suppose.

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  2. I know what you mean about keeping up with all the comments. I only really get online once a week so I make my first job on my blog going through my comments, replying to them and then following through to the blog to read one post and leave a comment. Once I got into a routine it made it a little easier, and just doing it once a week meant that I could ignore it the rest of the time. ;-)

    Cait @ Click's Clan

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  3. Just now getting around to visiting the blogs in the challenge. April was a busy month for me. Congrats on completing the A to Z Challenge! Looking forward to next year! See you on the Road Trip!

    Mary
    www.JingleJangleJungle.net

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