It's a lot of work to blog six days a week and I have an even greater admiration for those who blog every day than I did before. I know many of them hold full time day jobs like me yet still they manage to create new posts day in and day out. Wow.
It takes a lot of time to visit blogs and comment each day. Before the challenge I visited between ten and twenty blogs every day. During the challenge I stayed with that number during the week and tried to visit triple that number on weekends. By the third week I was falling behind during the week and on weekends. I never made my goal of visiting over half of the blogs involved in the challenge. My loss.
I learned there are a lot of wonderful, informative and clever bloggers out there. I met only a fraction of those participating in A to Z and found dozens of blogs I wish I could visit every day. I read many of them and wondered how some of these interesting people weren't already famous published authors. Talent by the bucketfuls.
Another lesson I learned is how I can be overwhelmed by what I feel are my responsibilities to my writing career. I have a new book released during the last week of the challenge. Suddenly I had too many things to do each night. To top it off, thanks to PA's wettest April ever, water came into our basement. My husband was working nights and I had to deal with most of the problems by myself. And promote my book. Guess what got lost in the chaos? Visiting blogs. I felt guilty about it every day. But I'm back in the grove now and I owe lots of visits. My book, Tiger's Mate, is now over a week into its published life and doing well I hope. It's difficult to tell with those young ones. This week I'll continue with some promotion, kick a little activity into my blog and get back on track with my WIP which is a third book in the Tiger's series. A great thanks to all my new followers. Can't wait to get to know you all better.
