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20 Days of Chill: The end (Day 20)

January 29, 2016

It’s all over!

For the few of you who joined up with this year’s 20 Days of Chill writing challenge, today marks the last day. The end! Finished!

It actually went pretty fast this year, which is nice. Some of the themes were hard, some easy, some definitely off the wall.

And I’ve enjoyed reading everybody’s posts.

I love challenges for blogs as they keep people focused (usually) on trying to complete it. A lot of times, the community gives back in regard to visiting other blogs, commenting, interacting, and having fun.

I would have liked to have seen a little more interaction with this year’s challenge, I can’t lie.

Part of the challenge is getting out there and seeing other blogs. Knowing your fellow bloggers who are participating etc.

Some challenges get a ton of participation like that, some don’t. But it’s only common courtesy to do so. I don’t want to sound like I’m scolding or anything – I’m not – but I always wonder when people link up and never come back to see who else has linked up. When I’m in a challenge, I always try and get back and look the next day and see if there are any others who have linked up.

Alas, what can you do, right?

The group was small this year and unless I somehow missed something, I should have been out and commented on every single post the challenge produced. I enjoyed each minute of it.

I’ll do a wrap on the challenge in the next week or so.

But this is the end. At least for this year. Will the challenge come back again next January? It’s highly possible. But I’m going to need to get the word out there a bit more as I was kind of slow on it this year.

As the end has come, though, I’m curious how those who participated enjoyed themselves. Did you like it? What kinds of thing can I do to improve the challenge? Did you like the prompts? Should I do something different with them?

There was definitely a wide range of writing styles and interpretations, which made things interesting.

But it’s over.

It seems like it just started and now we are staring February in the face!

And allow me to plug on thing that is not at the end – the Photo Blogging Challenge. If you like challenges and photography (DSLR, film, phone, whatever) – I run a monthly photo challenge. On the first of the month, I post a theme. On the last day of the month, everybody posts a blog post and then goes and links up. In between those days, you take photos and make a post of five images to work with that theme.

Simple!

For information – visit this link.

I hope everybody enjoyed the 20 Days of Chill!

This post is part of the 20 Days of Chill Writing Challenge hosted by A ‘lil HooHaa. Please check out the link if you’d like to see others or join in. You don’t have to do every theme if you don’t want! And for those participating, take a moment and check out the other participants! You can see the 2016 themes by clicking here. 

Feel free to leave a comment, or e-mail P.J. at hoohaablog [at] gmail.com. Also, please “Like” HooHaa Blog on Facebook!

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  1. Cat Palmer says

    January 29, 2016

    This was my first year participating in this and I really enjoyed it. Thank you for hosting this and I look forward to next years challenge!
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    • P.J. says

      January 31, 2016

      Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for taking part in it. I’ll hopefully keep it going and maybe try a different way of asking for themes and promoting it next year!

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  2. Paul says

    January 29, 2016

    I was usually the last to post. After I posted, I would comment here, then right click all the other blogs to see how they interpreted the theme for the day. Some days, I’d comment on every one, other days I wouldn’t comment on every one. My comments tend to come in spurts, for what interests me.
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    • P.J. says

      January 31, 2016

      I think that’s part of the west coast/east coast. I always tried to come back the next day and do my commenting then, thus making sure I got everybody. I always loved seeing how people did the theme. It seemed like this year there were plenty of creative ideas, which made it fun.

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  3. Linda says

    January 30, 2016

    It was a fun challenge, as always, but I do agree with you about the interaction. It’s that sense of community, even if it is only for the duration of the challenge, that makes it interesting. I know you commented regularly, and I appreciate that. I know that I was often late, and that I missed some here and there, but I did try to make the rounds. I do hope we do it again next year.

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    • P.J. says

      January 31, 2016

      Interaction is what I always like about challenges, and I’ll cover some of this in the wrap-up post I am working on for later this week. And it’s nice when people comment and such as it feels like people are part of the challenge. It’s just disappointing when people come and link up and don’t say anything here or at other spots. Here is easy — you need to come here to link up. The other, I can understand if they don’t come back. But if linking up the next day, click on the day before etc. I totally get not doing every post, every day. It happens. I just like a bit more interaction at times with challenges.

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