{"id":1588,"date":"2016-01-03T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2016-01-03T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:55:56","slug":"personalwritingadvent-new-year-brings-new-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"(personal\/writing\/advent) New Year brings new opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Happy-new-Year-cool-Clipart-pictures-free-Download2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1447\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Happy-new-Year-cool-Clipart-pictures-free-Download2.jpg\" alt=\"Happy-new-Year-cool-Clipart-pictures-free-Download2\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Happy-new-Year-cool-Clipart-pictures-free-Download2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Happy-new-Year-cool-Clipart-pictures-free-Download2-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Happy-new-Year-cool-Clipart-pictures-free-Download2-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the beginning of a new year, and one I&#8217;m hoping is better than last year. No, one I will MAKE better than next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m recommitting to several things &#8211; my goal to get healthy; my writing; and myself. Yes, I&#8217;m going to be enforcing my time to get better. I can&#8217;t take care of others at the expense of myself. I need to remember that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Work is going to be VERY busy in the next month &#8211; my day job is in the financial sector, and it&#8217;s the tax season. Which means I need to be healthy, so I can work the hours I need to. In addition, I&#8217;m getting ready to publish\u00a0<em>Winter Secrets,<\/em> which means I&#8217;ll be writing a lot, because well, I need to finish the rewrite by January 31. I&#8217;m also going to be doing at least weekly updates here (more if I can, but I&#8217;m only committing to weekly) so that I can keep all you lovely folks in the loop!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not doing resolutions this year, but I have made out my business plan for the year, and I have three books to write:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rewrite of\u00a0<em>Winter Secrets,\u00a0<\/em>which will be published in May<\/li>\n<li>The first draft of\u00a0<em>Deep Waters,<\/em> the first Pendragon novel<\/li>\n<li>The first draft of\u00a0<em>Resonant Frequencies<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more on that later. I&#8217;m also going to be at ConCarolinas and Balticon in the early summer, and some others maybe later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s the beginning of a new year, and one I&#8217;m hoping is better than last year. No, one I will MAKE better than next year. &nbsp; I&#8217;m recommitting to several things &#8211; my goal to get healthy; my writing; and myself. Yes, I&#8217;m going to be enforcing my time to get better. I can&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1588\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21,23,41,74,12,85,8,22],"tags":[61,67,78,7,34,60,86],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-con-schedule","category-goals","category-health","category-pendragon","category-personal","category-resonant-frequencies","category-weekly-updates","category-writing","tag-advent","tag-goals","tag-health","tag-life","tag-pendragon","tag-personal","tag-resonant-frequencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}