Thank you for your best wishes and concern, my friends! Unfortunately, I haven’t enjoyed a moment of this year’s AtoZ. Last year’s fun, frolic, bonding, and camaraderie has been replaced by apathy and quid pro quo. I’m a writer and I don’t wish to be a part of this poultry market. It’s apt that I say ‘I for I Quit!’ Thank you for supporting me and being with me on my journey. I cherish each and every moment with my blogging friends, but as the bard Jim Morrison crooned ‘This is the end!’ I won’t be participating in any of these mass-market barter blog-fests. I will write only for those challenges that entices and challenges me.
L.E.R.T 
I’m sorry you feel that way, but I’m glad that you’re doing what’s best for you and your creative energy. 🙂
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Varad, I am so sorry to hear this. I’ve tried to catch up with all the sites (what a horribly convoluted week I’ve had), and then…this.
I really do hope you continue this story, even offline, so it can be collected and published at your chosen timing.
Yeah, the “if you don’t comment I won’t even look at your blog” mentality is always there in all of these things. I do this for the push it gives me to write everyday. I need “deadlines”.
Again, I’m sorry that you’re ending this. Hopefully, it’s only for now.
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You should continue this series some other time then, whenever you feel like!
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This is what even I am thinking of !
Any reasons in particular? Actually this is first time I am feeling to leave due to some personal reasons .
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I didn’t participate this year because of other commitments. Your posts came into my mail box but I stopped myself from reading them because I was expecting another book of yours and wanted to read it at one go.
I think you should continue doing it for your passion to write and not as an Challenge . please do not deprive your readers so keeping writing for us.
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Is this a joke, varad?
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Unfortunately, no! 😦
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But why?
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AtoZ has become another My Friend Alexa. So, I for I quit!
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Hi from J, co-host of the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge.
I’m so sorry you’ve had a bad experience. I do hope you’ll fill out our after survey on May 3, so we can prevent whatever happened to you from happening to others.
I hadn’t head of “My Friend Alexa” before, so I had to search that. Blogchatter came up in the search. I know they run an alphabet blogging challenge in April also. We aren’t associated with it, so I know very little about it.
The A to Z Challenge is a blog hop, and has been for 10 years, so frequently people do opt to visit each other. While it’s highly encouraged, it isn’t a requirement. If someone suggested otherwise, I hope you’ll contact myself (or Arlee, Jayden, John, or Zalka) with details so we might look into the matter.
http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/contact-us.html
I’m sorry for the bad experience you’ve had.
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