writing and taxes
I’ve been so busy sending out publicity releases for the upcoming OWFI conference (May 4-5, 2007) that I haven’t had much time for my own writing.
Still, I did manage to enter a few contest, and I’m about half way through a novel that started out as an erotica book and is turning into something entirely different. Don’t ask what yet. Either a murder mystery, a mainstream novel, or possibly a political nightmare.
I won a second place award in a Sleuths Inc. contest. They sent me a nice certificate and three dollars and sixty cents. Think I need to claim it on my taxes?
Speaking of taxes; if you have a cd and the interest is just going back into the cd, do you claim the interest on your taxes now, when the cd matures, or when you take it out?
Taxes are always a nightmare. Worry about what is and isn’t deductible, gathering scattered receits, trying to avoid future incarceration. Nightmare.
Wouldn’t it be nice if writers, artist, musicians, etc were exempt from taxes? Better yet wouldn’t it be great if the government paid us to be creative so we wouldn’t have to work a day (in my case night) job to pay the utility bills? Which are unpayable. Geez, my monthly heating and electric bills are higher than my annual income. May have to get a second job to buy groceries and keep the internet running.
Funny, I never stress over money except during this time of the year. The rest of the year; I make it, I spend it, but I don’t stress over it.
Suppose taxes are actually a communist plot to de-construct democracy? Most Americans would elect Satan president if his platform promised to abolish taxes. Lesser of two evils and all.
Back to the grind stone. Taxes can wait, but advertising OWFI is a twenty-four seven priority around here. Hope to see you there. Of course you won’t recognize me. I don’t look like my pictures anymore. I’m older, grayer, fatter, but at least I’m still healthy enough to work enough to stress over taxes.
