Tossing It Out

Friday, September 28, 2012

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A Success!

How many guest posts can one blogger successfully host in the course of a summer? The answer my friend is blogging in the wind. I tossed the Hijack! idea out there to you readers and you made it work. Over the past four months forty one bloggers signed up to participate in my Hijack! project and every one of them showed up.

I would have expected at least one or two no-shows in my line-up, but incredibly they all delivered their posts in a timely manner and made Hijack This Blog! a huge success. A diverse group of bloggers brought a dazzling array of topics and writing style to Tossing It Out, keeping in spirit with the eclectic nature of my site. I thank each of you for your contribution to my summer project.

Though I realize it will give this post an appearance of being very long, I wanted to thank my blogging friends by listing the links to their contributions. If you missed any of these posts you may want to click on a few of the links to check them out. Or you can scroll down to the end of the list where this post will continue.

Here is the complete listing of my summer Hijack! guests:

▼ September (9 Hijack! posts)

You Have Been Warned: This Blog Has Been Hijacked...Alex J Cavanaugh

▼ August (13 Hijack! posts)

Thanks to all of you!

Hosting Guest Posts

Sadly, I didn't get the writing done that I had intended to do, but I did reevaluate my writing goals and have come up with ideas about completing my work-in-progress as well as taking a sidetrack to another old work that has lain dormant for many years.

Hosting guest posts is something I have done in the past, but never as I have done it this year. It can be a lot of work from the standpoint of organizing everything as well as trying to promote each post, a task which I undertook with less vigor and dedication than I perhaps should have. Even so, I did put a lot into the effort. I hope you all enjoyed it.

If you have never hosted a guest on your own blog, I encourage you to try it. The experience can be very rewarding in many ways. And it's fun and interesting as well. Among my guests were several bloggers who were doing their first guest post ever. I was thrilled to be the one to give them that opportunity.

My blog will continue to welcome guests in the future and I have several scheduled in the months ahead. If you have something you wish to blog about on my site let me know and we'll discuss it.

Patricia Stoltey has put out a call for guest bloggers on her blog as well. She's especially looking for some humor or inspiring stories. I think she's pretty open to ideas so if you're looking for a chance to write a guest post go to Patricia's site for more info.

Also my dear online friend and sometimes guest blogger Dana Sitar posted about the guest blogging topic earlier this week on her blog DIY Writing. She's also provided some excellent links for you to explore.

Something's Going to Change

Several of you mentioned that you missed my own blog posts and that made me feel very honored. I am back for the most part and I hope you'll like some of the changes I'm considering. Next Friday I'll tell you my plan and then see how many of you bail on me. You can find clues in some of the Hijack! guest posts and in my #IWSG posts--I know I'm being ambiguous, but I'm just trying to create a little suspense. Be here all next week and then definitely stop by on Friday October 5th and weigh in with your thoughts. You can try to talk me out of it or spur me on.

But First #IWSG!

And speaking of Alex J. Cavanaugh's Insecure Writer's Support Group, I'll have my October edition next Wednesday October 3rd. Maybe I'll even throw in a hint about things to come in that post.

There are things coming for better or worse and it's nothing to do with me getting married, unless we are talking in the most esoteric symbolic sense. And that's really stretching it I guess.

What did you think of the Hijack! experiment? Did you visit many of the guest posts? Did you have any favorites? Would you care to hazard a guess about the direction I am considering taking on my blog?

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