Posts by Gina Conroy
Tax Tip Tuesday: Common Direct Expenses for Writers
Writers work in all different genres and write for a variety of media outlets. Some of us are business writers, others create romance novels and many write articles for magazines or copy for web sites. Putting words into print is our profession, but dealing with the financial aspects of our writing business can be challenging.…
Read MoreEmpty My Hands
Our family is in an odd spot. We’re between normals, if “normal” ever actually exists for us. As we leave one stage and embark on the next, I have no idea how my days will form. What will they include? Which path will they take? As it is now, I’m impatient to get this over…
Read MoreLook Up and Enjoy My Present
“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” Psalm 139:13-14 Everyone in my family, except my brother, has to wear reading glasses. Our vision is good, but it’s hard to make out words, details…
Read MoreAuthor Mom Lori Z. Scott, Her “Baby” Meghan Rose and a Book Giveaway!
Lori welcome to Writer..Interrupted! Tell us a little about yourself Being a mother is my highest calling in life. And that means I’m a caregiver, nurse, tutor, cheerleader, counselor, transportation expert, and nutritionist. Doing all those mommy things is a bit like stuffing a sock with pineapples. It’s a stretch, but I pursue my own…
Read MoreEmbracing Life’s Layovers
Sometimes I feel as if I’m on a layover to my final destination. A stop on the way to something better, more exciting—My destiny. You would think a stop, a pause in travel would be restful, and I guess sometimes it can be, but if you’ve been on a layover in an airport, then you…
Read MoreStudying Emotions in Life & Writing Through Friendly Fire
I woke in the middle of the night to the rooster crowing at the moon. Strange but true. Poor pea brained birds don’t know the difference between the moon, a bright light bulb or the sun! Later, and still before the sun had risen, I woke again to the sound of a single gun shot.…
Read MoreFrom Contract to Shelf: My Book’s Story in Statuses and Pictures
I know I’ve been away from here for a while, but I haven’t been far. I blog EVERY Friday at Writerinterrupted.com PLUS I update my Facebook and Twitter statuses like crazy and I’m planning on reposting some popular posts I’ve written so stay tuned. I’ll try and hang around here more just in case you…
Read MoreTax Tip Tuesday: Bookkeeping & Record Keeping for Writers
Bookkeeping is an essential part of the business of writing and includes storage of receipts, invoices, statements as well as all the required documents to substantiate both income and expenses. Record Keeping Options for Writers To justify expenses, it is important to establish a system of record keeping that works for you. Some things need…
Read MoreThe Vulnerability of the Writer
By Brandy Bruce I was having dinner with a few friends the other night and we were talking about blogging, and I realized something: Being a writer can be scary. We were talking about the times we’ve written blog posts and then deleted them because we were so worried about what readers would think. One…
Read MoreFrom Mount Vernon Estates to The Smithsonian: How the Setting of Buried
“No estate in United America is more pleasantly situated than this.” – George Washington, 1790 Ever wonder where an author gets an idea for a story? The idea for Buried Deception came in 2005 when my family took a three week homeschool tour up the East coast. Mount Vernon was one of our stops. I…
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