Blogging A to Z?: A Word from the Other Side

Are you ready?





Yes I am ready!!!  The signups begin this month. I did this last year and had a ball!  It is awesome, awesome awesome. People participate for all sorts of reasons. You have NO idea how transforming it is until you join in.
(by the way, I have to thank Michelle Mach for bringing this to my attention initially--I would follow her anywhere and I really was thrilled  that I followed her lead, on this cool challenge last year!)

I woke up this morning to a lot of rain and then I saw this  great post on Arlee Bird's super site and lifted it off. It presents a viewpoint  from a person who participated last year , for different reasons than I did. As I have stated, I did this because one of my idols, Michelle Mach, was doing it. Yeah, I put that much thought into it. But you will not believe what you personally get out of this challenge if you try it!  So here is the post I saw this morning!

Blogging A to Z?: A Word from the Other Side

On January 6, 2012 Timothy Brannan from the blog The Other Side put forth a challenge to OSR/RPG bloggers (that's "Open Source Resistance/Role playing gamers) to consider doing the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. He presents valid reasons for doing the Challenge that would apply to all other bloggers as well. This post is reprinted with Tim's permission.


Blogging A to Z?


Last year I proudly participated in the Blogging A to Z challenge in April.

I felt it was not only a good way to stretch my creative abilities but work on my writing and do a bit a cross blog-genre promotion. My hits went up, and stayed up, drastically during and after April and I got my greatest surge of followers.

Well they are doing it again this year.

Artwork by Ada Zdanowicz

Though I am not sure I am going to do it this year yet or not.

Last year it worked out on many levels for me. I recall thinking about the posts I had queued up and how they would fit the challenge. When "Z" fell on a Saturday it clinched it for me.

Part of the purpose of the blogfest is to post every day. I do that now anyway.

Keep in mind I am NOT saying participation is a bad idea, far from it in fact.

I actually suggest that we get MORE OSR/RPG bloggers participating to get our message out there.

The one thing we all talk about is getting more people involved in our hobby, we can't do that if the only people we talk to are already in our hobby.

Plus if you are selling a product you should participate just to more attention to you and your book.

If I do it this year then I need to do a theme or something, make it more challenging than last year.

Are you going to participate? Why or why not?

Who's ready to accept Timothy Brannan's challenge?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uh, jean is!!! Whatever OSR means!!! See, I am already ready to learn!