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Help me with the A-Z challenge!

I know. I’m breaking schedule. But at least it is to put in an extra post, and not going missing like I have been the last month. Thing is, I am participating in the A to Z challenge. I was the 15th person to sign up and now there are nearly 800. I’m not doing much pre-writing or scheduling for this challenge which requires you to:

post something on your blog every day in April except for Sundays. In doing this you will have 26 blog posts–one for each letter of the alphabet. Each day you will theme your post according to a letter of the alphabet.You will only be limited by your own imagination in this challenge. There is an unlimited universe of possibilities. You can post essays, short pieces of fiction, poetry, recipes, travel sketches, or anything else you would like to write about. You don’t have to be a writer to do this. You can post photos, including samples of your own art or craftwork. Everyone who blogs can post from A to Z.

Instead of pre-writing, I’m going to try something a little more complicated: I’m going to ask you to please toss me a word in the comments. Any word that is your favorite, or that you think will be challenging for me to write on. If you’re a fellow A to Z blogger, please feel free to chip in if you feel like it!I’d appreciate words beginning with all sorts of alphabets, and only in English. Other language words widely used by English speakers are okay too. I plan for some of the posts to be fiction, some short essays, others just plain old having-fun-nonsense.

If you’re on twitter, you can tweet me the word @damyantig. Or mail it to me at meringue dot p at gmail dot com.

When I do a post on a particular word, I’ll link to the blogger who suggested that word, and why it grabbed me by the throat and made me write.The challenge begins on April 1st, so this is an SOS! I’ll not be doing it on this blog, because I still have ambitions of sticking to its schedule. Instead you’ll find the A-Z posts at Daily (w)rite, but I’ll link all the suggestions you give me here to that blog.I’ll wait for your words! Thanks to all the organisers, who you”ll find here. And if you haven’t signed up yet, do so now!


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Damyanti Biswas

Damyanti Biswas’s short fiction has been published at Smokelong, Ambit, Litro, Puerto del Sol, among others, and she's the co-editor of The Forge literary magazine. She's the author of YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN, a bestselling crime novel, which has been optioned for screens by Endemol Shine. Her next #1 Amazon bestselling crime novel, THE BLUE BAR, was published by Thomas & Mercer. It received a starred review on Publishers Weekly, and was one of 2023's Most Anticipated Mysteries & Thrillers on Goodreads. Kirkus Reviews called its sequel, THE BLUE MONSOON, a compelling procedural awash in crosscurrents. Her work is represented by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.

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