2016 A-to-Z Blogging Challenge Theme Reveal!

This April, in a little over a week, in fact, I will be participating in the 2016 A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. In this challenge, participating bloggers post an article every day for the month of April (excluding Sundays). We can post whatever we want, provided each day’s article corresponds in some way to that day’s letter theme (A for the first day, B for the second, C for the third, etc.). Participants don’t have to choose a theme for the month, but a theme can help inspire articles, and it gives readers a reason to keep coming back.

This will be my fifth A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. The first two years, I didn’t have a theme. Then in 2014, I thought it might be fun to post 100-word flash fiction every day. I had so much fun with that, I did the same again in 2015. What am I going to do for 2016…?

This year, I’m going to post 100-word flash fiction again, but with an added twist: Each day’s flash will be inspired by the title of a Paul McCartney song. I’ve been a McCartney fan for a long, long time, so I’m quite familiar with his extensive catalog of music. It occurred to me that there’s a McCartney song for just about every letter of the alphabet, so why not use those as part of my A-to-Z Challenge theme?

Each day in April, I’ll post a piece of flash fiction. It’ll be exactly 100 words long, and it might be a story, a scene, a vignette, a piece of dialog–whatever, it’ll be short and, hopefully, entertaining and/or thought-provoking. I’ll also tell you a bit about the Paul McCartney song I chose for that day, and provide a clip for your listening pleasure. I’m drawing strictly from Paul’s post-Beatles career, so some songs will be familiar, but others might be more obscure.

I hope you’ll join me for the challenge! 🙂

Here’s a Paul McCartney and Wings song from 1972 that’s quite appropriate for a letter challenge: