Please
join me today in welcoming second time challenge participant Rosalind
Adam to the A-Z Blog! She's got some nuggets of truth and hints for
you to digest as you prepare for THE CHALLENGE. I meat to shout
that, because in the words of my two teen boys, it's going to be EPIC.
They'd of course roll their eyes knowing I was using that word, but I
do like making them roll their eyes...
So
without further ado, glean what you can to better be prepared for
April. You've got your badge up, right? You're signed up, right?
You've started your networking (the purpose of the challenge –
building your blogging community, right?) I think I've used up my
“right” quota for the day...
10 Reasons
for Loving Lists by Rosalind Adam
1. When I was a teenager I loved the weekly Top
10 Chart hits, the Top 100 Records of the Year, the Top 20 films and so on. I
was obsessed. I kept all manner of lists in the back of my school note book.
Now the Internet is full of them so it’s not just me!
2.
Today I can spend hours sorting out new playlists on my iPod. It’s replaced the
hefty task of shuffling my LPs into preference order. I love the way that Word
produces a list of my writing files in alphabetical or chronological order at
the click of a button, and don’t even get me started on the lists I create with
Excel.
3. Lists are an excellent way to dump all that rubbish
clogging up your brain. I’m always making To-Do lists, and as for shopping
lists, they’re a must otherwise I’ll come home with pudding and forget all
about the main course!
4. Lists of names make compulsive reading, like
those Past Presidents on Sports Club walls or the list of attendees at a
conference. I always hunt for my name on those attendance lists, even though I
know I’m there.
5. Then there are dictionaries, thesauruses,
encyclopaedias, I love them all, especially catalogues. I may not need any of
the items on offer but I have to pause over the list of small kitchen items
because you really can’t have too many grippers for opening jars.
6.
Lists attract our eye, rather like a
poem. There can be nothing worse than looking at a page of densely typed words.
A list has a visually satisfying shape to it.
7. When we see an article or blog post in list
format, we know we’re going to get brief nuggets of information. There’ll be no
rambling or repetition so we feel more inclined to stop and read.
8. It has been proven that having a number in
your blog title attracts more visitors, a ploy regularly used by advertisers.
9. I’m guessing that most bloggers love to check
their stats. Me too. Yet another example of the thrill of lists, and who
doesn’t like to watch their list of followers grow? Incidentally, this is a
guaranteed outcome of taking part in the A to Z Challenge!
10. For me the A to Z Challenge is the ultimate
in list making. I’ve already started making lists of the A to Z content for my
theme and I’m going to include a small list in each day’s post, a list within a
list. I will be a truly happy blogger.
Are
you making lists to prepare for your A to Z contributions? It’s the only way to
survive the month. See you in April. You’ll find me at Rosalind Adam is Writing in the Rain
Thanks
Rosalind for being here today. I really like how you took your
passion for lists and showed us what an asset that can be as we
prepare!
~Tina,
coordinator of guest posters. Drop me an email if you'd like to be
one. tndowney at gmail dot com or the infoaz2013@gmail.com. I check my personal more often...and I'm info@ email girl, so either way, you're talking to me. If you want to talk to another co-host, use the contact tab above.
I do like going through lists but don't make any except shopping lists.
But after the challenge I have started appreciating lists. Might even do a few.