Has the jury reached a verdict?

2014 A-Z Blogging Challenge Reflection

2014 was my second year participating in the challenge. I expected more this time. More from myself, and more from potential readers/commentors/followers, or should I say, more specifically I wanted more of them, not more from them. I am not a blogger. I am an author who blogs to share my views on whatever grabs my attention or pulls at my heartstrings. However, my blog is mainly a promotional vehicle for my novels, and to a lesser extent my short stories. My efforts over a number of years have produced very modest results, and the 2014 A-Z Blogging Challenge has served to reinforce my view that I could be the most 'not an overnight success' author in the world. (I dip my lid to the master of hyperbole, the late Bryce Courtenay.)

Furthermore I have garnered additional evidence for my claim that most people want fluff and noodles. Despite being a realistic optimist, I think most of my posts on Square Pegs are too dark and heavy, and they make people uncomfortable rather than splash them with sunshine and rose water.

I wish to very sincerely thank the 25 visitors to Square Pegs during the challenge for the 72 comments they made, and for their own blogs which I mostly enjoyed, even when they weren't really my kind of thing. Here is a list of my top 5 visitors with a link to their blogs.

Liz A                    http://lawsofgravity.blogspot.com.au/
Sharon Himsl        http://shells-tales-sails.blogspot.co...
Vikki Thompson   http://the-view-outside.com/
Maria Dunn          http://delightdirectedliving.blogspot...
Alicia Ceresa        http://prolixme.wordpress.com/

My favourite new blogger discovery was Gunmetal Geisha who I confess to falling in love with from the reading of her first post.

Gunmetal Geisha   http://gunmetalgeisha.com/
 My most commented on post was the last one. Z is for Zanzibar, and my least, with an extremely disappointing zero comments was S is for Sex Workers. Can you imagine labeling a post with sex and sex references, and not getting any comments? Links for both are here for your pleasure.

http://dacairns.blogspot.com.au/2014/...
http://dacairns.blogspot.com.au/2014/... 

I think the blogging challenge has some problems now because of its size, and for the record, I'm not sure it's cool to skip days, or to combine letters or to have single sentence posts. Having said all that, I will return in 2015,and I look forward to continuing more wonderful interaction in the amazing diversity of blogland.