A is for Accomplishment

Well, it has arrived-- day one of 26 days of blogging the alphabet (with all Sundays but this one off..yay!) with the Blogging A-Z Challenge. I heard of the Challenge over a month ago, and thought, wouldn’t that be a great way to get me out of my blogging funk? By that time, I’d be rarin’ to go, I said to myself. But no, actually it hasn’t worked out that way. I kept on wavering on whether or not I should even attempt this challenge at this time. But, at the eleventh hour, I decided to go for it. Actually adding my name to the list feels like an accomplishment, because I waffled so much. Ridiculous!

I have accomplished other writing challenges before. I participated in NanoWrimo in 2007 and 2008 and found it soooo challenging, but a whole lot of fun, too. I still look back fondly at those two crazy Novembers and wondered how I ever finished when I was in my crazy busy time at work. But, where there’s determination, there is a way! And I’ve done a few NaBloPoMo challenges, which is also a great blogging activity.

The one writing activity I have not managed to succeed at very well is writing my memoirs. I have the book, the binder, and a number of pages written, but it seems I always put memoir writing at the bottom of my list, and of course, it never gets done! It’s not that I don’t think it’s valuable, because, frankly, it’s  more valuable than spending time blogging. But it’s a lot of work and takes a good whack of brain cells to work together and focus, in order to accomplish anything! I need to sit myself down and just do it, I know.

Well, here’s to the A to Z Challenge! Hope I accomplish what I set out to do!