Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2025
Theme Reveal
This is my tenth year participating in the A to Z Challenge. Each year I try to come up with a theme to challenge myself. One year I wrote each entry as an epistolary set of events, some connected, some not. That was inspired by another A to Zer that did that in the previous year (Crackerberries). One year, I was inspired by a writing group I was in, and I wrote an entire 26-part story based on a short piece I wrote for that group.
This year, I am again inspired by a fellow A to Zer from last year (DB McNicol) who had a random word generator select 26 words (one of each letter of the alphabet) and wrote a complete serialized story over the month using those words.
I used ChatGPT to generate my word list. I asked Chat GPT to compile the list with either nouns, verbs, or adjectives. I made two changes to the suggested list. I replaced one adjective “bright” with its adverb and had ChatGPT generate a different word for the X word it initially gave me.
Here is my final list of words I’ll be using: apple, brightly, climb, dance, elegant, forest, grow, happy, idea, jump, kind, lake, marvelous, nest, observe, peaceful, quake, river, strong, travel, unique, venture, wander, xylophone, yearn, and zephyr.
Join me as you follow my main character, Adriana, on her quest to achieve her destiny. I look forward to your comments.
A word generator? Interesting. Best of luck with A-to-Z. I look forward to reading your posts.
My theme reveal: https://brewingcoffeetwistingwordsbreakingpencils.ca/2025/03/09/subject-of-talk/#comment-8347
I am a regular follower of your blog and have it on my blog roll. Thanks for sharing this story with us. I am so looking forward to it. I am posting the buts and bolts this year. The ABC’s of ME. Looking forward to reading your stuff next month,
Pretty cool. Do you mind sharing what the rejected Z word was? I was hoping we might wind up with some shared words, but no dice (surprised I didn’t get travel on mine). https://15minuteclassics.blogspot.com/2025/03/back-to-basics-to-z-theme-reveal.html
DB McNicol was great last year so no pressure – I will be looking out to see where it takes you…
My mistake in my reveal. It wasn’t the Z word I had ChatGPT replace, it was the X word. The original word was “xenial”. It’s a biological term that I didn’t think but a few would understand, though I probably could have incorporated it into the story. Xylophone which is the substitute word will still be difficult to have it make sense in the story, but at least the readers won’t have to stop reading to look it up. I’ve corrected my mistake on the posted reveal.
This is a great theme. I love the way you have come up with the words and I look forward to seeing what you do with your story
Debbie
Looks like you’re going to have a lot of fun.
Ronel visiting for Theme Reveal for A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025
Interesting challenge. Good luck!
It’s certainly a different approach! I’m absolutely useless at following stories from post to post, but I wish you well with it. Have a great April!
https://jemimapett.com/blog/2025/03/10/a2z-theme-reveal-a2z2025-booksky/
You have a great April also. I look forward to following your writing. If you have trouble with post to post writing throughout the month of April, then I suggest you wait until May 1st and then start reading with A – Apple. Each entry will have a link to the next part, with a summary of the previous part. In that way, you and anyone else can read the whole story all at once.
Fun challenge, and I look forward to seeing how you work in the xylophone.
What a good idea to use the words in a serialized story.
My theme is at https://artmater.com/blogging-from-a-to-z-april-challenge-2025/
Well that sounds like quite the challenge! I look forward to the tale!
Happy 10 years of A to Zing!! Looking foward to seeing what you do with your alphabet of words like lake.
Joy Michelle Austin @ https://www.thejoyousliving.com/a-to-z-challenge-2025/
hi! i’m working my way through the official participant list of the A-Z challenge for 2025. looking forward to reading your posts in april. i’m new to this challenge so not sure exactly how this unfolds, but guess i will find out soon enough!
I am looking forward to reading your posts! I’m planning on participating as well for the first time! I’m posting my LATE Theme Reveal sometime tomorrow!