The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford

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The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford
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      • Not Your Father’s Horseman
        • Prologue to Not Your Father’s Horseman
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        • Chapter 1 of Dark Moon Seasons
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        • Chapter One – A Loss of Confidence
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(writing/personal) Finding Time to Finish

By Val April 16, 2019 Uncategorized No Comments

Today is PG Holyfield’s birthday. It’s also a day that I’m at my day job, the day after taxes were due, and I’m reading my newest Writer’s Digest on my…

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Weekly news round-up, the slightly late edition

By Val July 22, 2018 advent, book reviews, food, goals, health, heraldry, personal, reading, sca, tea, time management, to-do, walking, weekly updates, whole30, writing No Comments

So yeah, it’s been a few weeks. First I had an eye infection, complete with an ulcerated cornea, which meant absolutely no screen time. Then I went away to GNEW…

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(personal/writing/updates) The Weekly World Review, 2 weeks version

By Val July 8, 2018 advent, goals, heraldry, metrics, pendragon, personal, sca, short stories, weekly updates, writing No Comments

Sorry that this is late, but I’m getting over an eye infection AND an eye ulcer (in the same eye), so last week my computer use was limited. I even…

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Weekly news roundup – The Remicade week in review

By Val June 24, 2018 advent, book reviews, brian, crocheting, goals, metrics, pendragon, personal, sca, time management, to-do, weekly updates, worldbuilding, writing No Comments

This week was a bit of this and that, but this seems to be a good headline for this post for the nonce.   My week got thrown for a…

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Weekly news roundup – the Father’s Day edition

By Val June 18, 2018 advent, brian, ghost hunting, goals, metrics, pendragon, personal, to-do, weekly updates No Comments

Okay, so it’s a day late, but hey, I spent Father’s Day with the best of dads, mine. We went and saw Solo, which was super fun and I highly…

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Weekly news roundup

By Val June 10, 2018 advent, brian, heraldry, metrics, patreon, personal, reading, weekly updates No Comments

You know, I think one of the things I miss most about Diane Rehm retiring is that now my Fridays do not consist of two hours of the Weekly News…

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Life reboot: 2.0.

By Val June 3, 2018 advent, goals, health, personal, reading, tea, time management, to-do, weekly updates, writing No Comments

Life has been weird lately, and I’m not sure why. Of course, I just got home from Balticon, and I’m sick (again – I swear Maryland is trying to kill…

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(cons/writing/personal) The best part about going to a con, in my opinion

By Val May 26, 2018 personal, writing No Comments

Is how much it recharges your creative juices. Not just because you see people you haven’t seen in a very long time, or because you connect with fans of your…

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(writing) Of shoes and ships and sealing wax

By Val May 20, 2018 con schedule, personal, writing No Comments

I’ve been on a poetry kick lately. It’s very odd, since I never considered myself a poet, but there it is – the words are coming, and I’m not going…

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(writing/organization) Getting my thoughts in line

By Val May 13, 2018 advent, con schedule, goals, personal, reading, resonant frequencies, short stories, time management, to-do, worldbuilding, writing No Comments

I’m in a mood right now. There is so much swirling in my head that all I want to do is take a vacation from everything and just write. Sadly,…

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