Stories for 52 Ancestors - New Year Challenge

Another researcher recently shared an interesting link to a site where they issued a challenge: write a story about a different ancestor every week this coming year, all 52 of them.   My ears perked up at this suggestion, as one of my goals for this blog was to add stories on individual ancestors and family groups. 

Intentions are one thing, but as I have only managed to post 6 other articles in this blog this past year, I know that increasing the volume to 52 would be a tall order and quite a leap in productivity for me. One must leave time for actual research after all!  But the blog that issued the challenge is named No Story Too Small, so perhaps brief anecdotes would suffice (if this is at all possible for me!).  They also make suggestions for optional themes each week to stimulate new ideas and options.  And they offer to add a link back to participating blogs, potentially increasing traffic to your own blog.  So there are definite benefits.

So perhaps I'll make this my New Years resolution.  Maybe.  I've still got a few days to decide.

Added 1 Jan 2014
Okay, okay, I've decide I must a least try this.  I am now in the process of drafting my first story, and am finding that it is "forcing" me to review, verify and dig further into the life of the ancestor I have chosen.  This is a good thing, although it is taking me days to write one story, and the draft is getting longer by the minute.  That level of intensity will likely not be sustainable.  So it may take me longer than 1 year to produce 52 stories, but I'll give it a go.  And if you see the stories getting shorter and shorter, you'll know why!