{"id":1768,"date":"2017-03-05T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2017-03-05T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:36:55","slug":"writing-and-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"Writing and news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-948\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking.jpg 478w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about story, and life, and how our choices define us lately. I suppose it&#8217;s not surprising, given everything that&#8217;s happened lately. We&#8217;re coming up on the 1 year anniversary of my mother&#8217;s death, and I knew that was going to be hard. But I didn&#8217;t realize how hard it would be. I wonder now if it would be as hard if Brian was still here with me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been accepted as an author guest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concarolinas.org\/\">ConCarolinas<\/a>\u00a0in June, and we will be launching\u00a0<em>Winter&#8217;s Storms<\/em> there. In addition, I have a new project that I need to start outlining this month (a 2-book project that I&#8217;m very excited about). I think \u00a0the next two months are going to be finishing\u00a0<em>Storms\u00a0<\/em>and then churning out the outlines for the next 4 books I want to write. The 2 book secret project, the next Advent book for December, and the next Sapph book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I need to keep busy. If I don&#8217;t, then I start to stew and drop into a depressive spiral and then nothing gets done. Hopefully I can avoid that as I work through the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about story, and life, and how our choices define us lately. I suppose it&#8217;s not surprising, given everything that&#8217;s happened lately. We&#8217;re coming up on the 1 year anniversary of my mother&#8217;s death, and I knew that was going to be hard. But I didn&#8217;t realize how hard it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1768\">>>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":[14,21,96,74,12,53],"tags":[61,7,34,60,13,66],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-con-schedule","category-depression","category-pendragon","category-personal","category-secret-project","tag-advent","tag-life","tag-pendragon","tag-personal","tag-sekrit-project","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"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=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}