A to Z Challenge 2024 – Theme Reveal

Like the past years, I am excited for the April’s A to Z Challenge. This is my EIGHTH year of attempting this challenge and here is the timeline of themes:

2017: An idiom for an alphabet and 8 line poem to it.

2018: Emotions and expressions for life and 8 line poem to it.

2019: Words and phrases from foreign languages and 8 line poem to it.

2020: Metaphors from movies, idioms, celebrities, paintings, songs, etc and 8 line poem to it.

2021: Around the World and 8 line poem for it.

2022: Wordy Wonders and 8 line poem for it.

2023: A to Z legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and 8 line poem for it.

Here is the theme for 2024:

This year I am doing 26 moments. I am sure there are A to Z things that one has to stop for, wait, experience, appreciate and then feel it all. Give a thought. Give a space. Involve. I plan to bring such moments from diverse spaces, across and around – excited. And of course, there will be a eight line poem everyday as a closing thought.

I will also be doing one on Instagram with the theme ‘Scraps‘ (prakash.hegade) with short snippets.

Will you be doing the A to Z Challenge this year?

A to Z 2021 – Reflections

If someone brings up “April,” my mind immediately hollers ‘A to Z.’ I love ‘A to Z Challenge’ for it makes me commit to 26 days of Research and Writing. The striking slice is that it makes me write every day no matter what. I have been through days of professional and personal tiredness; 3.00 am, the bed looks beautiful, but then, I spend an hour more working on the A to Z. By the way, this was my fifth year of successful completion of the challenge. Every year I have been writing 8 line poems on the theme I select. I kept to the eight-line poems and then did a Travel around the world from A to Z.

Looking for country details, research, reading, selecting the specifics to write about, then abstract it and pen a poem, well, it was challenging than I thought. Some days got tricky because I had a lot to pick from, and then for a few days, I had to write on what I had. Letter X is always a challenge. I had days where I kept staring at my screen for an uncomfortably long time.

I have compiled my challenge into an ebook. Here goes my compilation, and with love, I close my A to Z challenge of 2021.

The ebook can be downloaded here:

A to Z Travel Around the World

I would like to thank all the readers who supported all through the month with reads, ratings, likes and comments. Thank you for being an inspiration. You also check my poems on the theme #LargerThanLife at my Instagram handle: prakash.hegade

A to Z Challenge 2021 – Theme Reveal

I can’t believe its already April of 2021! Last time I seriously blogged was in April of 2020. It’s been a year of lessons – good or whatever. But, Hey, It’s time for A to Z Challenge! This is my FIFTH year of A to Z challenge and looks like 8 line poem is definitely my thing! A to Z by far has helped me to learn and grow and this is one of the assignments that I take up seriously every single year. I have managed to compete the challenge successfully in the past 4 years. Here is my year wise theme from 2017:

2017: An idiom for an alphabet and 8 line poem to it.

2018: Emotions and expressions for life and 8 line poem to it.

2019: Words and phrases from foreign languages and 8 line poem to it.

2020: Metaphors from movies, idioms, celebrities, paintings, songs, etc and 8 line poem to it.

Here is my Theme for 2021

“Around the World and 8 line poem for it“

Well, I am excited! See you all from April 1.

A to Z 2020 Reflections

This was my fourth year of A to Z challenge and that very much is the reason why April excites me. April has been the only month since my blogging journey where I post at-least 26 posts. I am happy for what April does to me. It kind of seamlessly fits into my schedule like a must-do routine. I feel the month has that vibe and zeal to keep it going, no matter what.

I have always had 8 lines poems for the challenge with different themes over the years. I continued to do so this year too. Like every year, I must say, I loved doing this year’s challenge. My 2020 theme was Metaphors and a 8 line poem for each. Looking for metaphors was definitely a challenge. I did not restrict my domain to a specific kind of metaphors. I have used them from literature, history, songs, movies, paintings etc. On few days, I had to struggle on which one to pick and other days had to pick the only available. Some days was ease and some days I kept staring at my screen.

I did fill up the end survey and collected my winner batch. Here it goes:

I have compiled all of my challenges into a short ebook and is available for free download. Save a copy for yourself too! Yay!

A to Z: A Metaphor for an Alphabet Ebook Download Link 

I would like to thank all of you for being supportive through April. Every blogger needs a supportive community to sustain, survive and thrive. Thank you all for all the love.  Thanks to A to Z team for making it happen every year with growing enthusiasm.

Note:
This year I also did A to Z 6 word lockdown stories on Instagram. My Instagram id: prakash.hegade.

A to Z Challenge 2017 – Reflections

May 8^th is the official day to do the reflections post for the A to Z challenge and I have patiently waited for this day.

This is the first year I did A to Z Challenge and ask me not how happy I was and I am. It was A to Z of joy! My theme for the challenge was Idiom a day and an 8 line poem for it. I would like to sum up the same way in the reflections post.

Idiom: Happy Camper

Meaning: to be content or satisfied with what is happening in the life and to have no complaints

Poem:
Pick an idiom for the day,
Look out what it has to say,
Then the thoughts rhyme and mix,
Poem gets the words all fix,
Happy comments all around,
Thank you’s, wishes, gather and surround,
Isn’t it a lucky bumper,
A to Z, a happy camper.

My heartfelt thanks to all who followed my challenge posts throughout the month. Your presence, likes, comments and thoughts made this challenge more satisfying and healthy.  

I have put all the challenges together in a page here: A to Z Challenge 2017

Also made an ebook putting them all together which can be downloaded here: A to Z – Poem for an Idiom

A to Z Challenge – April 2017

I had seen last year a lot of my fellow bloggers doing A to Z Challenge. This April I am giving it a go and have plans to finish all the 26 on time, with best possible hopes.

The challenge is about writing every day other than Sunday, with themes of the post going alphabetically from A to Z. I plan to put poems(8 lines) everyday.

Join in. I am sure it will be fun. See you all in April. 🙂

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Note: 

• Hope to catch with all blogs from 01 April again
• Will be doing regular blog posts of book review and IBMC challengers on 31st march
•  Excited for the April start!

The Three

Got my three ebooks published this month! (Smashwords Editions)

All three together already have 300+ downloads. They all are free download and available at following links:

1. P for Poetry

2. PhD – The Messy Desk

3. Today Calls Tomorrow

I would like to thank all the followers and reader friends for the constant support and being a means of motivation.

The First – Blogging 101

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “First!.”

Tell us about your first day at something — your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever.

Well, I started my Blogging 101 course and completed the first assignment. What first could be more exciting!!?

Here is the START!