Monthly Archives: November 2013

(advent) November 30 – a prologue

Molly Barrett hummed to herself as she kneaded bread dough. There were four more loaves already rising in bread pans lined up on the stove, and five loaves in the oven. That would be enough bread for sandwiches for at least six days, provided Drew didn’t snitch a loaf for the Station. Maybe I’d better …

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(writing/personal) Good intentions and all that jazz

I meant to write more today on the Advent Story for Nano.  I’m still determined that I’m finishing by November 30 (I can totally do it), but today was one of those days where I knew if I didn’t write at lunch, weren’t no words getting written.   Why?   Well, I had Things to …

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(advent) Taking a look back

I promised in the Get Published podcast that I would put the links up for the other two Advent stories.  If you missed them, or if you just wanted to remind yourself of the world of Carter’s Cove, here they are: The first Advent story started here: https://vg-ford.com/?p=317 The second Advent story started here: https://vg-ford.com/?p=850 …

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(podcast) Get Published interview!

So, in case you missed it, I chatted with Mitchell Plested of the Get Published! podcast yesterday about serial writing in general, and the Carter’s Cove Advent stories in particular.   Here’s the link, if you want to listen to our conversation (which was pretty awesome!): http://www.michellplested.com/getpublished/get-published-episode-123-vg-ford-discusses-serialized-fiction/   Mitchell’s podcast is awesome anyways, so you should …

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(advent) Upcoming goodies!

I’m sorry, folks.  I’ve been neglecting the blog this month, because I’m knee-deep in the Advent story for next month, and it’s NaNo, and yeah, that’s not an excuse, but there it is.  However, I have some goodies coming up, and I wanted to let you know!   First, I’ll be on Mitchell Plested’s Get …

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