I am, for no clear reason, tired as hell, and have been all week, so the tl;dr here is “That was fun, I look forward to doing it again, and I need to do a better job of driving traffic to it.”

The longer version?  I got the entire challenge written in March, and April was an insanely busy month, and so while I got the thing completed I wasn’t really able to put any energy into visiting other people’s blogs and leaving comments and actually interacting, which is what the Challenge is actually supposed to be about.  It showed in site traffic; while April of 2015 was up over April of 2014 by about 2000 pageviews, it had less traffic than March of 2015.  And the posts really weren’t getting much attention.  Check this out:

You’ve got to go way down the list to get to the most popular A to Z post.  Anything with an orange bar next to it was written in April.  (That goddamn Snowpiercer review will never die.  Why are people still Googling this fucking movie?)

But anyway.  I know exactly why this happened; it’s because basically all I did as part of the Challenge was write the posts and participate in one Twitter party that just happened to be going on while I was online.  I didn’t really participate in any of the other social aspects of the thing, and that’s sorta supposed to be the point.  So maybe I try and get my spring 2016 book out in March so that I have more time for this.  The writing was fun; I just gotta nail the other stuff down.

(I have seriously been a dead man walking once I’ve gotten home from work all week, dying on the couch or going to bed excessively early.  I still want to review Avengers; I have no idea when I’m going to get around to it, though.  The signing is Saturday; I’m glad I’m already bald or I’d have pulled all my hair out from general anxiety by now.)