A Thirty-Word Story
Zeal.
Here is the story, in its entirety. 🙂 I ended up making a couple of “post-production” edits and I think the final word count came to something like twenty-eight. Thank you for indulging me, and congratulations to everyone on finishing the A-Z Challenge!
Alex Bought Corrine Diamonds Every February, Gladly. He Instinctively Just Knew Loving Miss Nevada Obligated Purchasing Quality Regal Stones; Till, Ultimately, Valentine’s Day Waned its eXtreme Yearly Zeal.
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Recently I’ve learned that many participants in the #AtoZChallenge have also been making their own lists of blogs they’re following and putting them into their posts, as a way to “spread the word.” I’m a bit late to this, but I thought I would put up my personal 2017 Challenge Collection, the blogs I’m following. I will be posting these to my blogroll once the Challenge is finished, like I did last year. 🙂
In no particular order:
|JEN’s Lexical Creations| |Life & Faith in Caneyhead| |~Idiot Writing~| |Drunk on Life| |Mail Adventures| |Finding Eliza| |keith’s ramblings| |Books and Revolution| |Coach Daddy| |My Random Ramblings| |2BlueEyes| |A Journey To Courageous Living| |Josie Two Shoes| |NamySaysSo| |Zombie Flamingos| |radhikasreflection| |transcribingmemory| |Hot Dogs and Marmalade| |*The KUANTAN blog*| |Space, Time, and Raspberries| |Penguin Ponderings| |Iain Kelly| |The Bookwright| |Plucking Of My Heartstrings| |Anything Veronica| |Shalzmojo| |Patricia Lynne, Independent Author| |McClendon Villa| |I Just Have to Say…| |The Sound of One Hand Typing| |Writer In Transit| |poetry penned in moon dust| |The Lady of the House Speaking| |Carolyn Astfalk, Author –| |WordDreams…| |QP and Eye| |Atherton’s Magic Vapour –| |Mainely Write| |Write to Inspire| |Making Life an Art| |
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A great way to end a cool take on the challenge. Thanks!!
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Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
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Great job Vanessa! Lovely! Enjoyed reading word by word story! Congrats on completing the challenge 🙂
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Thank you, Radhika! To you, too! 🙂 Thanks for staying through the whole thing! 🙂
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He stopped buying diamonds…on Valentine’s Day? Ouch.
Great theme, Vanessa!
Congrats on crossing the A to Z finishing line! 🙂
Writer In Transit
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Oh no! He didn’t stop buying them on Valentine’s Day! He bought them until Valentine’s Day stopped being such a big deal! I suspect eventually when couples have been together for years and years, when one of them asks, “So honey what do you want for Valentine’s this year?” the other will respond, “A nap, I just want to take a nap!” lol. 🙂
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Bravo. Well done, Vanessa. I had so much fun playing along. Here’s to more great blogging in May and beyond
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Thank you so much Geraint! I had more fun than you, I think! Your guesses always made me laugh. 😀 Thank you!
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Glad to be a part of the fun. Keep blogging, I’ll keep reading
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I will! And I’ll be reading yours too! I love your stories! 🙂
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Thank you so much 😊
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You can’t leave us there. What happens next? You will be back next year, won’t you?
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LOL Oh no worries, he will buy her diamonds until she’s sick of diamonds or Valentine’s Day, whichever comes first!
Yes, I’m pretty sure I’ll be back next year! I already have a couple of words brewing! 🙂
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The concept of your blog was so fascinating and original..simply loved it! Congratulations on finishing the challenge in a very special unique way!
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Anagha From Team MocktailMommies
Collage Of Life
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Thank you so much for your encouragement! I really appreciate that! 🙂
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Love this simple idea! May have to look into next year!!! It reminds me of a fun game! 😀 That’s quite the list you have compiled, congrats for completing the month!
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Thank you so much!
It really is quite a list, lots of great bloggers out there! 🙂 Thank you for playing along!
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Yes I collected three a week and shared them on my weekly weekend run down post. This list are those posts compiled into one list. 🙂
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Congratulations, you’ve done it, and very nicely done! I would be hard-pressed to do a story in this fashion that made sense. It’s been fun to watch you add to your sentence day by day, and wonder how you were going to make it work. Isn’t it a great feeling to be done today?! Thank you for sharing the A to Z!
Z is for Zadie – the conclusion to my A-Z serial story “Circle of Hope”
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Thank you so much!
I think your six sentence stories, and the way you wove them all together was such a work of art. 🙂 I would never be able to do anything like that. 🙂
Yes, it’s great to be done! But I do have some catching up to do as I was away from the blogosphere for a few days, think of all the great wrap-ups that await me!
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Congratulation on finishing your story and making sense with it. I have never seen another a to z quite like this one!
Finding Eliza
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Thank you so much for your kind words! 🙂
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Finally! The entire story! I’m still amazed at how anxious I was to see where this tale was going word by word. LOL
Congrats on finishing.
~Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine~
Story Dam
Patricia Lynne, Indie Author
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Thank you! I hope you weren’t disappointed! I’m so glad you stuck with it until the end! 🙂
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A great “short” story! I hope next year, you’ll try not to be so wordy. 😉
The AtoZ is over! Time now for about 12 hours sleep. 😔 Life & Faith in Caneyhead
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BAhahaha! Okay, I will do my best! Sorry I let my word-count get carried away! 😀
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That is a great ending, Vanessa, and far better than zirconia. haha This was a blast! I really enjoyed your challenge posts. You did great building anticipation. 🙂
Have a blessed night.
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Aww, thank you so much sweetie!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for hanging with me through the end. 🙂 ❤ *hugs*
Blessings back!
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You’re welcome, my friend. 🙂 I enjoyed every minute of it! {{{Hugs}}}❤
Thank you. 🙂
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I’m not sure I could come up with a coherent sentence with its words in alphabetical order. Not without putting in days and days of work on it. Well done, you!
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Thank you for your sweet words. 🙂
See, for you maybe days and days – me, practically a whole year! lol
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Lol! Maybe I’ve over-estimated my ability, and under-estimated the work. 🙂
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Ha! No. 🙂 I’m just not a writer like you are so it takes me longer. 🙂
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Damned interesting the way you kept the suspnese going for the past 4 weeks!
Congrats on completing the challenge and doing it so well!!
Cheers 😉
Theme: Peregrination Chronicles (travel)
Z is for Zen in the Glen #atozchallenge
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Thank you so much! And for supporting and encouraging me the whole way through. 🙂
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Great work, kept us guessing until the end and gave us a contemplative ending to think about. Glad to have ‘met’ you on the challenge. Look forward to following your blog 🙂
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Thank you! I’m glad to have met you too, and you are on my Reader. 🙂 Don’t want to miss any great stories.
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Fantastic!
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Thanks! 🙂
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And we reached the end eventually!
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Yes! Yay! The ending of the Challenge seems to be one of those things you are both reluctant and grateful to see, lol. 🙂
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Great job. I’d missed out on a few posts and I’m trying to catch up. So glad that I came across your blog during this challenge. And congratulations on making it to the end! 😊
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Congratulations to you, too!
Yes, I know exactly what you mean! Trying to catch up! Life keeps interfering with my blogging! lol
It’s been so lovely connecting with you. 🙂
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Thanks, Vanessa! 😊 Ohh yes, life keeps interfering. 😁 I’m glad that we were able to connect. 😊
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