{"id":1866,"date":"2018-01-04T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:20:44","slug":"personal-writing-advent-2018-my-first-full-year-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"(personal\/writing\/advent) 2018 – my first full year alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I swear this year is going to be better. I won’t let it be the same way it was last year. I won’t.<\/p>\n

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But things are going to have to change. I’m realizing how hard it is to do things on my own – not just in terms of emotionally (because it IS hard, even if you are okay with being alone, which I am), but in financial terms. My hat is off to all you folks who have been doing this all along. I thought it was hard with two incomes. It’s so much worse with one. And it doesn’t seem like the bills get any less.<\/p>\n

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There are a few silver linings for the year coming up: I can work from home when I need to, which means no more real days missed due to weather or illness. My Crohns’ disease is under control, and I’m getting healthier every day.<\/p>\n

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I start my Whole30 food program today, so there will be random posts about that. I’m still trying to figure out how to post automatically to Facebook from here, but I’ll just have to do it manually until I can get into the guts of my website. Which I will have to do anyways, because I’m going to redesign the entire site.<\/p>\n

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In writerly news, I did cancel my Patreon. I’m contemplating several things, including maybe putting a tip jar out here on the site for right now. I don’t feel that I give enough right now to make a Patreon practical for me or fair to my readers. I might also get a Ko-Fe page, but I don’t know right now.<\/p>\n

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I’m working on the new Advent story – I will finish it by the end of January for you all. I promise. Then there are the proofs of\u00a0Winter’s Storms<\/em> to go through, the cover to finalize, and that will be out by April 20, which is RavenCon! And I’ll be there that weekend, with calendars and copies of both books, and Schrodinger, of course. He might even get a new hat or vest for the occasion.<\/p>\n

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I’m also now accepting new clients for proofreading only. My rates are:<\/p>\n

-Up to 10k is $25<\/p>\n

-Every additional 5K is $10<\/p>\n

I do fiction, non-fiction, whatever. Poetry might be weird, but I’ll give it a shot.\u00a0Here’s what I do for proof-reading:
\nI go through and pick out any misspelled words, missing words and\/or phrases, and make sure your heroine\u2019s hair hasn\u2019t gone from blonde to brunette without a dye job in the middle of the story. I also tend to correct punctuation, mostly commas and things like that.<\/p>\n

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If you’re interested in that, please drop me a line at vgford@gmail.com<\/a> and we’ll talk. Turnaround is based on how big your project is.<\/p>\n

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I guess that’s it. Happy New Year folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I swear this year is going to be better. I won’t let it be the same way it was last year. I won’t.   But things are going to have to change. I’m realizing how hard it is to do things on my own – not just in terms of emotionally (because it IS hard, …<\/p>\n

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