How to complete AtoZ Blogging Challenge with an ease

Bloggers do take up many challenges in the Blogosphere and the sense of achievement in completing the challenge sends an adrenaline rush. One of the most popular Blogging Challenge across the globe in the Blogging field is AtoZ Blogging Challenge. This challenge has been run over a decade and lakhs of bloggers register for it and many complete it with a smile on their end.

What is AtoZ Challenge:

In the AtoZ challenge bloggers write in the whole month of April and publish their blog posts on all days of April apart from Sunday. The first post starts with Letter A, second with letter B, and so on till you reach letter Z. Each letter signifies in the title and all over the blog post. 

Why AtoZ Challenge 

Many bloggers can’t understand why people register for this challenge and all the hullabaloos around it. We would say once you are in the challenge you get to know the excitement of publishing the posts continuously and seeing your posts flowing among the readers. As a blogger, you will 

• Be more consistent
• More creative juices start flowing
• Interaction with fellow bloggers during the challenge
• More readers on your blog
• Bank of posts for the future to promote your blog

How to ace the AtoZ Challenge

This is the biggest question of all the first-time bloggers and also to the bloggers who are participating year after year. 

1. Plan step by step:

First and foremost start affirmations that ‘ You will complete the challenge and will rock it. Such positive affirmations do make the work much easier. The date is set for the challenge, so let the mind be set too. Start penning your posts in March itself and choose a theme.

2. Select the Theme:

Though it is not compulsory to select the theme, yet it is always advisable to select the broader theme where your posts can get fitted well. Don’t narrow down the theme, for example, you can have ‘Food with Indian Twist’ as a broader theme than ‘Baby Food with Indian Twist’. Selecting a broader theme will help you increase the horizon in your writing too and your posts will not sound repetitive.

3.One Single Documentation:

Choose one single word doc or a notepad file where you are jotting all your 26 posts for the challenge. This will help you to jot ideas in the respective letter even if you are penning for a different one. Jot down the titles of each letter before March 25th, so that you at least know what to write for that particular post.

4. Theme Creative:

Select a theme creative in your design websites such as Canva, and you just need to change the text for the particular day. This saves lots of time and your page looks familiar plus even someone comes across your images on social media they will recognize this post is by you. Don't sweat , be smart to finish the challenge with such tips.

5. Maintain a rhythm:

Blogposts should be rhythmtic in nature. For example, if your posts are around 400 words then do maintain that length in all the posts, though number of words are not mentioned in the challenge  If you are ending posts with a quotation or question, do that in each post. This will help you build your unique style in your writing.

6. Don’t look for perfection:

Yes! You read it right. For AtoZ if you are writing a title with a twist then at later stages you can always edit according to the SEO. We would suggest going with the flow and don’t be the perfectionist in the posts, you always have time to do that later on. 

7. Easy readability & Comment Feature:

Check all your setting for desktop and Mobile settings, as readers will flow from April and you will not have time for all the technical handling. Make commenting an easier process, do switch off Captcha in comments as the tiring commenting process will make readers disinterested in commenting.

8. Well placed Share Buttons:

Make sure all your share buttons are working fine and have your social handles embedded because you don’t want that post to be less shared as the reader cannot find them right after the post.

9. Reading is part of Challenge

Though you are writing, much fun is reading fellow blogger's posts and commenting on them. For this, you need to dedicate at least an hour daily so that you are completely in the challenge.

These are some simple ways where one can follow and ace the challenge like a pro and emerge as a winner in May by flaunting all completed 26 posts. If you are a blogger and want to register for this challenge with Blogchatter then register here. Last date is 25th March, so if you are planning to take a leap with your blog then register with Blogchatter.

We participated in the AtoZ challenge for 5 years, below are the theme-based for the recent three years, have a look and get inspired to complete the challenge.

2017 - Relationships - Poetry, Prose

2018 - Parenting - An Intangible Wonder

2019 - Lessons from Nature

Few theme suggestions for bloggers to decide according to their Blogs are

• 26 moral lessons that I want my child to learn.
• 26 questions of kids that are most difficult to answer.
• 26 books for kids under age 10.
• 26 Hobbies to inculcate in a child.
• 26Lessons taught by my child.
• 26 hobbies that can be taken up in life.
• 26People I want to thank in my life.
• 26 Lessons that historic sites imbibe in us.
• 26 Letters to the dignitaries about how I want my India.
• 26 Quick snacks under 30 min preparation
• 26 Poems on Life
• 26 Short Stories on Lockdown
• 26 Stories with football as a hero

These themes may help you select your theme for AtoZ Challenge. Choose a theme according to your blog niche or we would say if you want to start a new category altogether for your blog this is the right time to do so.

Though we are not participating this year for our prior commitments towards our writing we are surely here to cheer all the participants. Wishing all participants good luck and have a rocking April.

@MeenalSonal