Last year, when I had participated in the April A to Z Challenge, I wrote about random subjects from A to Z. I wrote about my addiction, emotions, memories, love, Twitter, I posed a question and a riddle, wrote a spine poetry, did a picture post… in all I wrote about 26 random topics. Pretty challenging to think about new topics everyday or pretty simple to write on anything that takes your fancy?
This year, we signed up for the A to Z challenge in January and there has been a lot of buzz about to theme or not to theme? Well, last year, I didn’t had a theme, this year, it makes sense to try something different and new and I decided to go for a theme.
Drum Roll Please….
My Theme for the A to Z Challenge 2014 is : Marriage from A to Z
No, these are not some pearls of wisdom on marriage and there wont be any advice on relationship problems either.
These are some of the ingredients that make or break a married relationship. These are some of the good, bad or ugly facets that we see in a relationship.
Another Drum Roll Please…
And all these different aspects of a married relationship will be shared in the form of stories which will be in exactly 55 Words.![cooltext428803164_thumb[1]](https://shilpaagarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cooltext428803164_thumb1.png "cooltext428803164_thumb[1]")
Yes, I’ll be writing 55 Fiction Stories on Marriage from A to Z, this April.
Now, doesn’t that look like a plan!!
Easy on you as a reader, as 55 words are just short enough to grab your attention and time and long enough to cover the subject. Of course, it is going to be challenging for me, but then I believe, the greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
So, be there with me this April, as I explore the various aspects of a Marriage from A to Z in just 55 words.
See you around! 🙂
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Wow… Marriages, pretty interesting topic. I am excited about the challenge and also curious to read ur 55-ers on it.
Yes, excitement is the word for this A to Z Challenge, this year 🙂
That’s smart!! 26 posts with 55 words…how cool is that!! Am excited to read about them now…and I guess am gonna enjoy the most 🙂
Smart or Suicidal?? 😉
55ers all month long and that too on marriage, I’m really looking forward to your posts Shilpa 🙂 I’m thinking of finally taking up the challenge myself, hopefully I will be able to complete it.
Wow! That’s super cool, Reshma! Glad you are in for this Challenge too!! Oh you will ace it, I am sure of it!! So, are you working on a theme??
Oh this is gr8…I’ll wait for the different aspects of marriage from A to Z 🙂
and 55ers though it seems easy I know it definitely isn’t! Infact it is really difficult! All the best…looking forward to it!
Thanks for understanding my situation, Nabanita, I am wondering if I am biting more than I can chew with the 55ers!! 🙄
Wow, Shilpa! Exciting theme! All the best for the challenge 🙂
Thank you Gauri and good luck to you too 🙂
marriage and 55ers.. interesting Shilpa. You are a very creative person. Good luck for the contest.
Thanks for your support A 🙂
Sounds like an amazing idea. This is my 3rd year and I think I will mix up my posts with 55 fiction, haiku, and a zentangle or two. I have never done a theme, and will probably just wing it like I usually do. 😀 I look forward to reading your posts during the month. ♥
You are awesome, Kathy!! I know, you will ace it and it will be as easy as abc for you do so many everyday blogging challenges!! 🙂 ♥
Wow…what a great idea, Shilpa! Twenty-six l’il nuggets of wisdom on marriage. Count me in!
Thanks LuAnn, you are a sweetheart! Looking forward to your 31 Proverbs Woman too 🙂
Very impressive! Looking forward to reading your posts! 🙂
Thank you PB. Looking forward to your Living Life series too 🙂
Awesome!! I have always regarded you as the 55 fiction queen! So looking forward to reading you through the month! 🙂
You are too kind, Aditi! Thank you. Looking forward to your Shades of Life too 🙂
Very brilliant!! Shilpa you are a very creative writer! Only you can get such unique and novel ideas.Waiting to read your 55ers.
Thanks for the encouraging words, Ma’am 🙂
I am looking forward to learn a lot about Indian festivals from you too 🙂
Marriage , and 55 ers on that ! That’s double the challenge 🙂 Loved the creative idea, and I’m sure , when you write the colours will be more 🙂 All the best ! 🙂 April, come fast !! 🙂
Yes, it is double the challenge, truly! Hope I am able to do that! Thank you Sreeja, appreciate your support 🙂
Interesting and challenging .. Waiting waiting …
Me too 😀
WoW! It seems like we will be wiser by the end of April!! Looking forward for stories of wisdom!!
Thanks Nibha! 😀
Wonderful theme! Marriage and 55! So, togetherness and unity even in the theme 😉
Good luck!!
Wow… I never thought that way. Thanks for sharing that, Shailaja 😀
Marriage is one my favorite topics 🙂 looking forward !
Hope you enjoy it here, Ananya 🙂
Lovely Idea 🙂
Good luck my dear 🙂
Thanks Smita. Are you joining us, this April?
We are in for some real insight here 🙂 loved your theme 🙂
LOL 😀 Hope so! Thanks Raj 🙂
Haah love that theme, marriage-stories and in 55 words 🙂
Thanks Sunila. Glad you liked this theme 🙂 Looking forward to your Yoga series too 🙂
A double challenge! Looking forward to your 55 words per letter on marriage Shilpa. You are definitely the 55er queen.
Now, your sweet and kind words are scaring me, Suzy! 😯
Drum rolls…..bugles…… all for your creativity shilpa. A challenging task indeed…..a theme and that too all 55ers…..Great shilpa!
Yes, you are right, I have embarked on a very challenging journey this April. Hope I am able to deliver! 😐
Ha,Ha.
Very intersting theme.
Why 55 words? Ask any husband and he will do it in three…..” YOU ARE RIGHT”
First step towards a happy marriage
Haha ha! Mr Chowla, that’s so funny 😀
So the Drabble Queen is all set. Oh I’m so looking forward to reading your 55ers.
Thanks Tulika. Looking forward to read your Amazing Authors too 🙂
LOL @ Mr. Chowla’s comment above! 😛
Interesting theme, Shilpa… and a daring one too! Looking forward to your posts in April! All the best! 😀
Mr Chowla is actually spot on 😀
Thanks Kaddu, I need all the best wishes. I know I have taken up a challenging task! 😛
55 words on marriage —- I am intrigued alright!! It will be a challenge for you and an breeze for us. So much to say in so little words… Great going!!
I will try my best 😀 Thanks Inderpreet 🙂
am definetely looking fwd to seeing u around! N i cant wait to hear more stories from KG … Maybe u could get himt o do a guest post
KG takes ages to read a post, so a guest post from him will take centuries!! You will have to make do with reading posts from me only, Meena 😀
Hi shilpa ,
It’s always nice to read your posts . marriage is an interesting subject , looking forward for your posts in April . all the best !
Thank you so much Anupama 🙂
See yo around 🙂
fiction again…! okay.. I was thinking of limiting to 55, .. but the one I started exceeded the word count..so thought will go easy on my theme
you mean at the end of April, you will have “shaadi ke side-effects” ebook?? 😉 😉
LOL 😀 Shaadi ke side-effects ebook, now that’s an idea 😀
Wow that is a kind of raising the bar all the while
Hope I am able to do what I have challenged myself to! 😛
I have read many of the reveals already, yet yours is the most “Challenging”, a topic and a word count. Can’t wait to read your 55 words.
HI Rhonda. Good to see you here! Now, I am getting the jitters, Rhonda 😛
What a great plan! Love the idea of 55ers for the whole month and that too on the subject of marriage 🙂 Maybe I will take inspiration from you and write 55ers, hope you don’t mind 🙂
That would be awesome, Sulekha… looking forward to read your 55ers in April! 🙂
whoa thats going to be a toughie
PhenoMenon
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You think so too!! 😐
A cool theme, Shilpa! Looking forward to reading more of these!
Thanks Michelle! 🙂
Man…I never get how you can write in 55 words….okay, I hope to learn some interesting things about marriage then 🙂
LOL 😀 Oh, nothing that you dont know about marriage will be revealed here, Latha 😀
How very interesting! You’re the Queen of Challenges, Shilpa. You’ll ace this one.
Fingers crossed, seriously this time, Corinne! 😛
What an awesome topic to blog about! I will definitely be following….Good luck with the A to Z Challenge. This will be my first year.
Thanks Cheryl and good to see you here!! Good luck to you too, looking forward to read all about Emotions on your blog! 🙂
I am doing a word-limited theme this year too! Only I’ll be doing 100 words per day on being a teenager. Eek hahaha I can’t wait to read!
Wow! That sounds so cool AJ:)
My son will soon be a teenager, so I need to read/know all about the new age teenagers, so looking forward to read all about teenagers this April! Cheers 🙂
Cool. Looking forward to read those 26 55Fictions.
Thank you SG 🙂
Very interesting Shilpa!!
Looking forward to your posts! 🙂
So, does each person get a theme? Or do you choose your own?
We choose our own themes! Aren’t you participating in A to Z, Pixie?? 😯
Oh I love your theme and wow 55 words! I am really looking forward to reading your posts.
Good luck with the challenge!
Thank you Doreen, I need all the good wishes for this challenge and best wishes to you too 🙂
That’s a great way to exercise your creative muscle, as well as captivate readers – whether they are married or not. I’ll be popping in regularly throughout the #atozchallenge, if my system of organisation works. 🙂
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Yes, it is going to a challenging one!! Looking forward to your support, Ida 🙂
26 short stories on marriage and that too in 55 words,that would be fun…..
would definitely look forward to each one of them…
Thanks Sitara. Looking forward to read you too! Cheers 🙂
Good luck with all 55 fiction but real stuff 🙂
last year we all met in April challenge. hoping to come across again in challenge
ATB
A year has passed! Wow! Time surely flies! Thanks Afshan and good luck to you too 🙂
Sounds like a plan then 😀 this is such a fun topic! Had almost decided upon it 😀
Hope things work out as per the plan 😀
One topic, 2 perspectives are great too. Your theme is super cool and I am looking forward to your thoughts and views on life in mid twenties 😀
that’s very brave of you, I mean writing 26 back to back 55 fiction is tough. The funny thing is that all you need to write is just 1430 words in April.
this is the coolest theme for AtoZ challenge I came across today 🙂
Amritt
Thanks Amrit, glad that you think that this is the coolest theme! Hope I am able to deliver what I have promised now! 😀 Looking forward to read all about movies and trivia on your blog too 🙂
Marriage from A to Z in 55 words – that sounds like quite a challenge! I’m looking forward to seeing what you share.
TaMara
Fellow wHooligan
Fingers crossed, TaMara!! And see you around 🙂
55 words a day on marriage from A to Z…..can’t wait to read them!!!
Hi Teresa!! Thank you and see you around! Cheers 🙂
that sounds intteresting! 55 worda is the catch! am going wid an easy theme as it is my first time. lookin forward to your posts 🙂 all d best
Good luck to you too, Swathi! I am sure you will do great! 🙂
That’s quite a challenge, especially the 55 word restriction! Looking forward to your posts. 🙂
Yes, it is going to be challenging! 😛 Thanks Debbie and looking forward to read about your travel and culture posts too 🙂
This challenge is going to be very interesting!! Look forward to reading and sharing 🙂
Yes, April never looked so exciting before! 😀 Thanks. Are you participating in the A to Z Challenge, Amelia?
Looking forward to this feast of 55s, Shilpa!
Me too! Thanks Vidya 🙂
I’ll be following in April. Sounds intriguing.
That’s cool, see you around, Laura 🙂
Marriages? I have no idea what you are going to write so looking forward to them 🙂
Hopefully, will work out something! See you around, Siva 🙂
Love the theme, Shilpa! It’s super relevant, a fabulous opportunity to explore with humor (or satire?) and more seriously an important aspect of modern life. I’m not married, but I’ve been living with my boyfriend for 10+ years, which makes us in many ways a “married couple”. I’ll be looking forward to your insights.
Thanks for stopping by at Quiet Laughter: The Mighty Theme Reveal yesterday, and for the super sweet comment you left–much, much appreciated 🙂
Thank you so much, Guile, glad you liked this theme!! Hopefully the 55ers will be laced with humor and satire and some thought provoking stories too! 🙂
Good luck to you, I know you’ll be blogging on 2 blogs!! Looking forward to the excitement 🙂
I love 55ers..and dat too on a topic life marriage and that too from you..we are in for a triple treat
Aww… thanks Apoorva for your kind words 🙂
Such high expectations are actually scaring me now 😀
Shall I say this is going to be interesting. I hope S for Spicy will also be there 😉
I am debating about S 😀 😉 I believe it should be there 😀
Interesting theme. Looking forward for the 55 words daily. I am doing a similar series on 6 word stories daily.. All the best
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6 words stories!! That’s awesome!! Will look forward to reading your stories, GS 🙂
That’s a very interesting theme. And the 55 fiction thing will make it so creative! Looking forward to the posts. Good luck!
I will try my best, Beloo 🙂
Thanks and looking forward to read your insights on Education too 🙂
Wow! That’s quite a challenging theme but I’m sure you’ll do full justice to it!
Fingers crossed, Roshni 😀
Pretty interesting theme Shilpa. Looking forward to reading you 🙂 And all the best 🙂
Thanks Jyotsna and good luck to you too 🙂
Wow! Looking forward to read how you decode the A to Z of marriage 😀
Working on it, Bhavya 😀
Hi Shilpa. Read your last year’s posts on A-Z challenge and loved them. This is quite a difficult task I must say to post daily with one Alphabet in that order! And after reading about your plan you are going to do some serious blogging stunts here! All the best! 🙂
P.S. After reading your motivating posts I too have signed up for this challenge but I am clueless about my next move! My name is visible in the list but how do I get to know in which team I am and how to go about this challenge!
Hi Shesha! Thanks for reading my last year posts and glad that it inspired you to participate in the A to Z Challenge this year!!
I saw your name in the list and that’s great. Now, all you have to do is blog everyday from A to Z in April, except on Sundays. There are no teams for the participants. We blog, read, comment and share and increase our network of blogs and have a great time learning and having fun, this April. So, start writing your posts! In case you have any other query, please ask, I will be happy to help! Good luck and happy blogging 🙂
Thank you so much Shilpa! 🙂
Interesting theme–I’ll be back! (Everyone can use a bit of insights into marriage!)
My A-Z challenge is Family History & Genealogy.
Gail at Making Life An Art
Hi Gail! Good to see you here!! I am afraid, there wont be any insights just some very short stories 🙂
Your theme sound interesting!! Will definitely check it out! Cheers 🙂
that IS quite a challenge!! and a very interesting one at that!! looking forward to ur posts!
Thanks S! Looking forward to read you too 🙂
Great theme and a nice way to make concise posts with 55 fiction. Very clever! I just discovered your site through A to Z and I love it. Marriage is awesome! I love your little picture-quotes and the fact that you link to other A-to-Z-ers in every post 🙂
jetgirlcos visiting via Forty, c’est Fantastique
Hi Shilpa, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the the A-Z series. the theme you chose was fantastic and I must say I gained a lot from reading them. good reminders for every married person.
Cheers
Tara