Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2026
Theme Reveal
This is my eleventh year participating in the A to Z Challenge. Each year, I come up with a theme to challenge myself. I have written multi-part stories, an alphabet book using Google images, an epistolary series, and several other unique collections.
You have my A to Z background, now for this year’s challenge:
I’ve attended several weekly and monthly writing groups over the last 15 years. In each of these groups, we were given a Story Spark (Theme), a quote connected to that Spark, and several writing prompts to choose from (if we wished) to write about and share. The writing is sometimes a timed piece (usually 20-25 minutes), and other times we have up to a week to complete it.
I’m often asked where I get my ideas in these groups; my usual response is that I write the first sentence down and then let my muse direct me the rest of the way. So far, it has been a successful practice.
For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I am going to let my muse direct my writing. Basically, that means you’ll never know what to expect – memoir, fantasy, time travel (one of my favorite topics), poetry, etc.
Some of the pieces I write will be based on prompts I’ve received over the last 15 years. Other pieces might be taken from a piece I wrote in one of those groups that left my readers hanging, which needed to be completed (after all, how complete can all your writing be in 20 minutes). Some of the writing will be a one-and-done piece, and others may take place over several days (don’t worry, for those stories, I will try to keep to consecutive days)
Prepare to enjoy where my mind and muse take you. It could be to save the world or to find a unicorn. You may have read about my friend Ronald, who always seems to get me in trouble. He may show up in a story or two. I might even share some thoughts about life in general as we know it. I’m sure there will be some poetry added in, too.
I’m looking forward to the adventure. I hope you are, too.
See you all on April 1st.
