We all have problems.
I love to escape from them by diving into the pages of a good book as a way to do it.
It’s a chance to forget my ish and revel in someone else’s dramatic life for a little while.
Whether it be a friends to lovers romance, contemporary fiction or a memoir, I’m in.
Is reading your escape? If not, what is yours?
M xoxo
Another A to Z Challenge is over.
I changed course like I explained in this post but I love how writing challenges always provide me with a base for a longer story and this last A to Z confirmed what I already knew:
Novels may be bigger but bigger is not always better.
Novellas are my “thing”.
I said “novellas”, not “telenovelas”, though I like them too.
With a novella, a story can be told more quickly and it’s a great way to decide if I want to convert a story into a lengthier piece.
And in these days of busy, busy, and more busy, readers seem to want quickie reads.
Novella, novel or a book the size of an old telephone book. What’s your preference?
M xoxo
Congratulations to all those who completed the A to Z Challenge!
It was my fourth kick at this challenge and though I changed course part way, I sort of finished.
Sort of finished…
I fell to my “back-up” plan and posted old songs I haven’t heard in years according to the alphabet.
But I’m still going to give my four reflections on my A to Z Challenge experience today like other participants.
Reflection #1: NO more continuous fiction stories. The ones I wrote before worked out since I only had one character. I can’t post any old words just to keep up with a challenge – quality over quantity. But I will be continuing the story off-blog for my email subscribers during summer time;
Reflection #2: “One” word or shorter titles like What Sandra Thinks and The Dream Girl Writes are the way to go for these challenges. I truly enjoyed the lightness, flexibility and variety of their posts;
Reflection #3: If my posts are not prescheduled ahead of time, I’m not participating. I have yet to spend April reading other’s posts and not writing against the calendar;
Reflection #4: April is NOT a good writing month for me. Work deadlines, tax filing month and putting sweat into A to Z posts that are unrelated to my (many) unfinished projects is not a good leverage of my writing time.
Conclusion: I think it’s safe to say that 2019 might have been my last participation A to Z Challenge. But if you’ve never done it, I would strongly encourage you to.
If you didn’t participate but are curious to read the wonderful blogs of those who did, click here.
I’ll be using this as part of my summer reading list!
Bisous,
M xoxo
If you just stumbled across my blog, for the rest of this month’s A to Z Challenge, I will only be posting the song links that inspired my A to Z Challenge story.
If you are interested in what I wrote from “A” to “G”, feel free to go back to the beginning by CLICKING HERE.
Readers who are on my mailing list will continue to have access to my in-progress story offline as well as be able to make comments.
Bisous,
M xoxo
If you just stumbled across my blog, for the rest of this month’s A to Z Challenge, I will only be posting the song links that inspired my A to Z Challenge story.
If you are interested in what I wrote from “A” to “G”, feel free to go back to the beginning by CLICKING HERE.
Readers who are on my mailing list will continue to have access to my in-progress story offline as well as be able to make comments.
Bisous,
M xoxo
If you just stumbled across my blog, for the rest of this month’s A to Z Challenge, I will only be posting the song links that inspired my A to Z Challenge story.
If you are interested in what I wrote from “A” to “G”, feel free to go back to the beginning by CLICKING HERE.
Readers who are on my mailing list will continue to have access to my in-progress story offline as well as be able to make comments.
Bisous,
M xoxo
If you just stumbled across my blog, for the rest of this month’s A to Z Challenge, I will only be posting the song links that inspired my A to Z Challenge story.
If you are interested in what I wrote from “A” to “G”, feel free to go back to the beginning by CLICKING HERE.
Readers who are on my mailing list will continue to have access to my in-progress story offline as well as be able to make comments.
Bisous,
M xoxo
