A to Z Reflections

First of all, a HUGE thank you to all those who took time to stop by to read and comment. It was much appreciated. I personally know how difficult it was to write and keep up with all the blog posts.

This is my fifth year and fourth time writing flash fiction. Last year I not only wrote flash but did a personal theme of the A to Z of Goldendoodles, so guess that makes six times writing for A-Z. Each time I've used a different method to chose words for my flash fiction stories but the key was always the photos I found to help my creativity. The visual image always helps me with finding a story line I like.


This time around was no different, well,  except the words seemed more mundane. I had also given myself the restriction of 300 words and sometimes that was tough. But personal life also made it tough this year. Too much real life and too little time. I had a wonderful mini-vacation at Disney in Florida from April 1-5, then was slammed with family medical issues with six different family members. Everyone is healing, not to worry, but it impacted my productivity big time.

What else was different? I had way less visitors this time around, and thus a LOT less comments. I followed and commented on over thirty blogs and maybe a dozen came back and commented on mine regularly. Another half dozen might have made one comment in exchange for my visit and comment. Previous years have seen dozens of commenters, in fact, it was rare that a return visit wasn't given. This year, it seemed to be more the norm, even for blogs where I commented on multiple posts.

All in all, it has been an underwhelming experience compared to previous years and I suspect this will be my final year.

But again, thank you to ALL those who took time out of their busy schedules to visit. I hope you fared well in your endeavor this year.