April A to Z 2015

 

AHOY!!!!

Emanuel Wynne Flag via openclipart.org.

I may be the only blogger not involved with planning the 2015 A to Z Challenge who’s thinking about it already, but that’s ok.

It’s an advantage 😉

I’m doing it up right next year.

Join me if you dare.

 

Registration will open early next year and the date will be announced in advance, if I read this page correctly. I’m following by email, so I’ll know the moment the registration date is announced. When I know, you’ll know.

I can’t help you complete the challenge, and if I’m already familiar with your blog, I likely won’t even have time to read it while the challenge is going on. So I am thinking ahead and making a list of other things I can do for you. Here’s the list.

Image by Gene’O, 2014. Original photo by Vicki, 2013.

1. Welcome you to let me know you’re doing the challenge by commenting on this page and dropping links to your topic reveal and your reflections. If you have a particularly good post or two during the challenge, share those as well.
2. Work links to your blog into my posts here. I’ll do this by including an “A to Z Friends” blurb at the end of every post and link to two or three of you per day. I can’t give everyone a link every day, but I can probably give everyone at least one link during the challenge.
3. Give you a Social Saturday (or Sunday) after the topic reveal in which I pin and tweet your topics, and another once Reflections are published in which I pin and tweet those. If you’ve been hanging out with me for a bit, you know I am pretty good at Social Saturdays.

Things you can do to get in on this and help me out:

1. If you decide to join the challenge, leave me a comment with a link to your blog and let me know.
2. Drop me links to your topic reveal and your reflection at the appropriate times.
3. Tell me in advance how you are planning to go about doing the visits. This will help us all more than you think.
4. Spread the word that I am doing this by whatever means you think best, to whomever you think might be interested. I am starting early so the word has time to percolate through the blogosphere and as many people as possible get the opportunity to throw in with me.

Survivor Badge by Jeremy of Being Retro.

Right now, my plan is to visit 5 blogs per day on behalf of Sourcerer starting from the top of the list, and do five visits on behalf of Gene’O starting from the bottom, pinning and tweeting as I go. I’m hoping I’ll know enough people who are doing the challenge this year that we can bump into one another and interact on other peoples’ threads. That will help the new blogs we’re visiting AND help us.

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I’ve never met a blogger who didn’t enjoy seeing two commenters interact on their threads rather than simply responding to the author of the post. Never. And personally, whenever I see that going on at one of my blogs, I take an extra-close look at the bloggers who are interacting. It’s a sign of real engagement.

If you are a past or current contributor to Sourcerer, you’re welcome to join the A to Z planning for that blog. I need to make a decision about whether or not to do the challenge with Sourcerer by mid-November.

If you are a collaborator, a social media friend, or a person who likes my blogging but doesn’t comment, you’re welcome to introduce yourself here and drop links should you decide to give A to Z a try 🙂