This has been my third year of A-Zing. In no particular order, my thoughts in reflection…

Time – oh to have buckets more of it. As usual I failed to plan everything up front or schedule enough posts in advance leaving myself a pitiful amount of time to read other people’s. It should be said, write the posts in advance and spend the month reading and commenting. But, I didn’t anticipate applying for a job in the middle of it and how having the kids off school for Easter would eat into my time.  Oh, shucks. Maybe next year…

Theme (Abbeys and cathedrals) – I’m glad I picked it. Rather like last year’s castle one, it was fun researching everything. I learnt a lot of things I hadn’t expected. The posts weaved into each other as I found commonality between places and their history.  I hadn’t planned to write posts on some cathedrals, knowing I didn’t have enough letters, but I managed to bring in snippets about them anyway with a little imagination.  I bought a blogging planner book earlier in the year and used it to jot down facts and ideas. It helped, but probably didn’t make a huge difference to writing the posts.

Connecting – It was harder to navigate to everyone without the linky list, so I relied on comments and signatures to click through. Where possible I add blogs to my reader so that I find people that way again. However, WordPress Reader is infuriating in how it manages blogs, especially those from Blogger. I’ve not finished catching up with blogs, and will continue to do so in the coming weeks. It was good to find people again after a year!

Would I do it again? Of course. Why not!  Next year I might go for a completely different topic, less history. Flash fiction? Music? There are so many ideas to chose from. All I need is that elusive time!

See you next year 🙂