Now that the 2013 A to Z Challenge is over, it’s time to do a little reflecting.
One
of the big goals I had for the challenge was to get back into the habit
of blogging. You may have noticed that aside from April my posts have
been pretty sparse, and most of them have been in the Sunday
Inspirational Image group. Picture posts are easy, but I never wanted
this blog to be just pictures. It’s a place for me to write, and the
writing stopped with the beginning of my final semester of my Masters
degree.
In
that, the A to Z succeeded, for April anyway, and I’m done with my
degree. So there should be no excuse for further slacking off!
One
thing that I failed at was visiting other blogs and leaving comments.
It just didn’t happen. In part, this was because I already follow an
awful lot of blogs, and keeping up on my standard reading takes a
significant amount of time. I used to be much better about it too, but
there are just so many interesting people writing interesting things
that it’s hard to trim the list. That also makes it hard to get around
to commenting on the interesting things.
As for the rundown on my posts, I’m really pleased with Alizario,
Cerebral Slime, the demon bunny Jak-Arakit, Umbral Walker, and Yanaloth
the demon prince. When I settled on monsters for my theme, I didn’t
expect to be creating so many undead and demons yet about half of them
were.
There
were a couple of trouble letters too. For most of the alphabet I had my
monsters picked before April even started. O, Q, T, U, and Y didn’t get
picked till the night before, and I didn’t finish X in time, so it was
posted on Sunday.
I have been thinking about putting this all together in a PDF. I was originally hoping that all the monsters
based on Reaper’s minis would be pictures of minis I’d painted, but I
still haven’t gotten my Bones Kickstarter shipment yet, so I’m debating
whether to wait or not. Is a PDF something you're interested in? There's a poll off to the right
And here's the list of posts, just in case you missed any of them.
Dave, I can certainly appreciate the "time" problem. I follow a number of blogs myself and, as you say, just keeping up with the reading of them can consume a great deal of time.
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Been enjoying your monsters!
My favorite is definitely the Mechanical Quahog.
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