Well it’s coming on April and that means its time to prepare for another #AtoZChallenge. Last year was my first year participating and my theme was “seriously silly poetry from A to Z”. It was a ton of work, but also a lot of fun and even led me to publishing a book! As a bonus during this year’s challenge, I’ll be posting the fully illustrated poems from my book letter by letter throughout April. Stay tuned for that.
This year, I’ve settled on a theme that frankly I’m a little nervous about as I’m not sure how I will manage it. It will consist of two components. The first will be a bit of writing inspired from a literary device or form. I’m not restricting the type of writing — it could be poems or prose or essay, but each piece will be inspired by and illustrate the use of a literary device or technique (some may be formal while other may be more informal). For example “A is for Alliteration” will showcase the use of alliteration. As for the rest of the alphabet…I’ll let you know as I go along because I’ll be figuring it out on the fly.
The second component of the challenge will be visual. I’ll be constructing a black and white “found” pattern from each of the letters. By “found” pattern, I mean that I will discover the pattern organically without any predetermined outcome but all starting from the physical shape of the subject letter of the alphabet. My graphic for the series below exemplifies this.
I’d love to hear your thoughts regarding my theme and welcome any suggestions on specific literary devices/techniques to consider during my alphabetical journey.
Be well,
Monty
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Monty’s Blahg 
I remember your posts from last year. I really enjoyed them!!! Looking forward to your first theme, not sure I understand the 2nd one
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Thanks!! Being visual, the second one will be more easily shown then described I guess, haha.
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Ambitious! I look forward to this April!!
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Thanks! I might have to get a head start to make it all work.
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Looking forward to it!
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I like that you’re adding a visual aspect to your posts. Good luck, see you in April.
Stopping in from A-to-Z: https://brewingcoffeetwistingwordsbreakingpencils.ca/2023/03/06/subject-matter/
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Thanks so much!
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This sounds like a challenge I’d really enjoy. I’m looking forward to seeing it!
Good luck!
Kai – https://kaiberie.com
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Thanks Kai!
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I too, remember your posts from last year. Your poems were funny. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this year.
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Thanks Jamie
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This really looks intriguing!
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Thanks Maggie!
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You are quite welcome.
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I love your two=component theme and am looking forward to your posts. The visual aspect has me totally intrigued. How fun!
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Thanks Deborah!
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Wow. That’s really ambitious. Good luck and I’ll look forward to seeing your work!
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Thanks Michelle!
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This sounds like quite the challenge indeed, but it sounds like I’ll enjoy reading your posts.
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Thanks Astrid!
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That sounds like a really fun challenge. I’m sure you can do it. I participated in several A to Z Challenges years ago (and returning to it now) and I think I had the most fun the years I did it on the fly.
As long as you keep things short and can do the visual elements fairly quickly you’ll be fine. Good luck!
I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Thanks so much Ula!
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I love your graphic for the theme. Spare and beautiful.
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Aww. Thanks!!!
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P.S. I think you chose the perfect font for the graphic. It really shows the kind of eye you have for this.
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Yay 😀
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Ooo this sounds really interesting!
Super unique and I like the idea of the visual representation!!
Looking forward to reading more!
Stopping by from the A-Z
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Yay! Thanks!
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Looks interesting. I am looking forward to seeing what you post all month.
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Gosh, you’ve given yourself a lot of work there! I must admit when I’m doing original work for the A2Z it definitely pays to prepare the posts as early as possible. In fact even this year when I’m actually linking back to many of my reviews it’s a lot of work. So good luck and I hope it goes well. 🙂
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I’ve already started to work ahead and I’ll be pulling from some past materials when relevant. Hope I can make it all work. Thanks!
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This looks like it will be interesting. I am especially intrigued by the idea of deriving patterns from the shapes of letters. What is your process there? Is it purely intuitive, or are there rules that you apply, or what? Anyway, I will definitely be back to check out your A to Z. Happy blaghing!
(I sometimes spell it “blaugh,” myself). 🙂
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That does sound like a challenge. I’m looking forward to new-to-me literary devices, because I’m pretty sure that I don’t know 26 of them.
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Thanks! I’m definitely expecting to learn some new ones too. Whether I’m able to apply them well or not, we’ll see. I will try to just enjoy the learning opportunity.
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Sorry for the late reply, I just saw your comment in my spam box. Not sure why that happens to legitimate posts. For the letter found patterns I use a mixture of actions from rotating/shifting to inverting then just allow a pattern to come into being. It’s pretty open and the key is deciding when to stop. Looking forward to seeing you soon during April. Thanks for stopping by the Blahg 🙂
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Cool! this sounds like an exciting challenge! I´m looking forward to see your posts. 😀
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Thanks so much!
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