
This year was my 8th time participating in the April A to Z Challenge, BUT only the 4th time that I’ve completed the challenge properly, posting all 26 posts in the month of April.
I enjoyed writing my ‘Food Memories‘ post even though I was a little apprehensive at first whether or not I’d have enough food memories to reflect on. But I needn’t have worried, I had more than enough anecdotes, some I even forgot myself until I started writing about them!
When I wrote my posts, I tried to include as many details as I could, including the specific name of the restaurants where I had certain food (if I could remember them) and also the dates (or years) when I tried that food. I tried hard to dig up facts from the memories instead of just writing about the emotions I felt.
Though I still mainly wrote my posts on the posting day itself, I did have some posts written ahead. I didn’t schedule those posts to go live at a certain time and day however, since I preferred to re-read them again before finally clicking that ‘Publish’ button myself. I would then tweet about the post, and if I remember, log onto Facebook and post it on the challenge page too.
One of the most amazing things about this challenge, is finding new blogs to follow, so this year I’d like to give a shout out to these bloggers for entertaining me with their posts throughout April:
- Allison & Her Camera, who shared about her eco-journey. Also, her pictures (which she takes herself) are pretty amazing!
- To My Recollection, a blog belonging to S.M. Saves who posted mostly scary flash fiction. She even managed to write a 4 (or 5?) part flash fiction during the challenge!
- Planet Simon, who posted about sci-fi films throughout the challenge. Some of his posts reminded me about movies I’d forgotten, and best of all, his posts were short and sweet!
Looking forward to next year’s challenge already!
Thank you for the shout out! 🙂 May is going to be my A-to-Z Reading month so I’ll be catching up on your food memory posts!
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No problem! Yes, I have to catch up on all the other blogs that I missed too!
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I’m already thinking of theme ideas for next year’s challenge haha
Debbie
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Me too! Though it’s fairly ambitious which would require lots of planning LOL
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Aw thank you for the compliment! I’m so glad I found your blog. I haven’t felt as adventurous with food as I was years ago, so it definitely inspired me!
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Well, your blog makes me want to take better pictures! And also to write about my eco journey! 😀
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I’d love to read about your journey!
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Visiting from the A-Z Reflections List. Congratulations on your 8th year of participation. I don’t know how you managed to write every day for that day’s posting but well done. It is amazing how one memory can trigger a whole experience and it sounds like that happened for you during the challenge. Linda x
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