So. We’ve come to another end of the A to Z Challenge. I won twice again, which makes me a bit happy. Still… the achievement was a bit anti-climactic.
But the main reasons I can think of is me. I loved the series I did for both blogs, and got back a lot of wonderful feed-back, but the fact is, I didn’t do what I wanted to do. I wanted to meet new people while making sure to keep track of everyone I already knew. Last year I neglected the latter.
This year… I just couldn’t manage to do the former as much as I wanted. It’s just sort of impossible at this stage of my life.
Right now, blogging is still a wonderful activity, but the fact that I got a publishing deal changed the way I look at it. I’m not sure if it’s a good thing.
Because the thing is… Writing has now become something that’s getting somewhere for me. And because of it, it’s also moving up in my list of priorities. So’s editing.
Fact is, talking about writing isn’t the same as doing it, so I just can’t put blogging ahead of my writing/editing/creation related activities.
Which means I visited an all time low number of blogs. But I shouldn’t feel even a bit guilty, because despite the above, the number is close to 700 comments this month. Problem is, I would have liked to do about double that, so I could find more of the new blogs.
Which really brings me to this point. I don’t think I’ll take part again next year. It used to be a fun activity that greatly expanded my readership, but now it’s something that becomes work. And because of that, not all that fun after all.
Anyone else know what I’m talking about?