New Year Thoughts, Presents, Rewrite, Conventions

[mmerriam]

I think the reason I have a hard time going into the New Year with a positive attitude is that I start every New Year:

1: Exhausted from the annual Christmas holidaze trip,
B: Sick from whatever disease I caught in Oklahoma, and
Thirdly: Stressed about the impending income tax season.

It would be nice if at least one of those would skip a year.

Bestest Christmas Present Evah: careswen registered me for a storytellers workshop.

I've hit a dead stop in the rewrite. I need a scene, or a similar scene, from the earlier drafts to happen, but the new draft, while stronger in all other ways, doesn't really support this scene, or a variation thereof. Once I figure out what to do about this, I should be able to slam the rest of the rewrite out in short order.

I saw the panel proposals for Minicon. Nothing really tripped my trigger. There are a couple of panels I wouldn't mind being on, but nothing jumped out at me. I might just sign up for a reading this year and leave it at that.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Color me confused about why you're stressing over taxes at all, much less now.

Then again, mine are already done.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I've still got to pay my last set of estimated taxes this month, and then we always get hosed at tax time. The joy of being married with no kids and no large write-offs. Though becoming homeowners helped that a lot last year.