F is for Friday! #AtoZChallenge

TGIF!

Friday is probably my favorite day of the week. Working a Monday-Friday job, Friday marks the end of my work week. For the last ten years, I have celebrated almost every Friday with coworkers. It's a great way to wind down and prepare for an action packed weekend.

This particular Friday is extra special because we are SO close to the end of the first week of the A to Z Challenge! Just one more day and we can all breathe a great big sigh of relief and take a day off. Of course, many of us will likely use that day to catch up on our favorite blogs and find new ones, but at least the pressure of posting is relieved.

The end of the first week is in sight. Hang in there!

What is your favorite way to end your work week?

~Jayden R. Vincente 

jrvincente.wordpress.com (adult content)

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I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard. - Cam Newton

E Is For Everybody And Everything #atozchallenge

There's a lot to remember to do during the A to Z Challenge:

• Write all your blog posts. 
• Schedule all of them for the correct day.
• Respond to everyone's comments.
• Visit other blogs and leave them comments.

It's that last thing that trips up a lot of people. How do you find blogs to visit? 

Here's what I do:

• Visit the blogs of everybody who was kind enough to visit my blog and leave a comment. This should be the first thing you do: acknowledge the comment they left, then go visit their blog and leave a comment there.
• Visit the blogs of everybody who left a comment on my visitors' blogs. As I'm reading and commenting on someone's blog, I look at the other people who left comments there. Some of them are bound to be people who left me a comment, but many others won't be. I give them a visit and leave a comment there.

I can keep iterating through this over and over, or I can refer to the daily lists, the theme reveal list, or the original sign-up list. 

Two things you'll want to remember: you won't be able to visit everybody, and not everything will be interesting to you. There are close to a thousand people who participate in A to Z each year, each with their own interests. If you visit 10% of them over the next month, you're doing really well, and don't feel guilty if the theme isn't all that interesting to you. The goal is to make blog buddies! Remember, you share one interest: you're bloggers. 

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Make new friends and learn new things!

D is for Debut #AtoZchallenge

Among my contibutions to online communities, I volunteer over at Operation Awesome. (A team of writers posting information pertaining to the various stages of book publication.) I run the Debut Author Spotlight.



I've posted an A to Z about this before. If you are a debut author or know about a book coming out soon by a first time author, please let me know.

What's your favorite book by a debut author? When did your blog debut?


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"The difference is winning and losing is most often not quitting." - Walt Disney