Why is it I find it so difficult to write happy family scenes? I mean, I actually had quite a wonderful, happy childhood. It’s not like I don’t have material to draw from. I think I just don’t find happy childhood scenes all that interesting.
Tim’s got a post up where he looks at the first lines of his novels, and it got me curious at to what all of mine looked like. No doubt there’s a hell of a lot of other huge differences between where I was when I wrote my first book and where I am now,
La Gringa is a hardworking woman in the SF/F publishing industry who’s been through a disastrous run of bad luck at various SF/F publishing houses and has been laid off and then laid off again for well over a year. Money’s been running out for ages, she also has various medical bills to pay, and
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For serious, yo. Writing up that mock business proposal paid off. I’ve been tentatively offered a temp-to-possible-hire position in downtown Dayton for what I’ll refer to here as a financial services firm (the universe must be trying to tell me something…). Writing jobs of any sort are like fucking gold, even if, as with this
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I love me a good Wiscon, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve never stayed Thursday-Tuesday before, and yes, it’s Sunday night and I’m incredibly burned out. It takes a lot of effort to get ready for those things. After I blew through the first couple days of “I love all these people! It’s so great
I’m heading for the airport in about half an hour, so in case I don’t get the chance, remember that my story The Women of Our Occupation is going to be available for purchase on May 29th in the Year’s Best SF 12 collection – Buy it and ask me to sign it! That would
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I’ll just need to write a lot on the plane…
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I AM DONE WITH GW EDITS FOREVER. DONE I TELL YOU. FUCKING DONE. FINISHED all line edits today. FINISHED. NO, REALLY. I WILL NOT do any more edits on this book until or unless asked to do so by an editor or agent. IT IS IN THE FUCKING BAG. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS
If I declare myself and business and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $1221. If I don’t declare myself a busines and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $421. This probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d kept all of my con reciepts. EDIT: Final Federal taxes owed: $553 Yeah, right! I