A little 101 with my good friend and bookkeeper, Debra Moore. Starting one’s one company and keeping track of other financial sources can be tricky business…and let’s not forget actual writing. Check out her thoughts and new book, The Business of Writing…

Hey, girl! Guess what I’ve been up to?

Remember that conversation we had a while back about writers and finances? Well, I took your advice to heart and wrote the book that needs to exist! My new book, The Business of Writing, went live on Amazon last week! Unlike other finance and business books out there, this one is geared specifically to writers and the challenges we face.

I’ve been doing bookkeeping and creative writing for over twenty-five years, and I was finally able to combine the numbers side and creative side of my brain to produce a book every writer will find useful.

My book will show how to save time and money all year long as well as during tax season. This way, writers can focus on writing instead of stressing over the financial side of the business.

In the book, I’ve included information on managing the daily bill and receipt piles with a tool called the Money Journal. There are tips and tricks on tracking all financial matters along the way quickly and easily—and in a way that will save them time and money at tax time. The book covers how the structure of our businesses is so important and can make a huge difference come tax time. Also, the book has an exhaustive list of expenses specific to writers—some that writers are probably already tracking, and many they may not be.

There is a lot more information in the book, and I included loads of links to forms I designed, spreadsheets writers would find helpful, and IRS publications every writer should know about.

I know you get financial questions all the time. Here’s the link to the Amazon page. There’s more information about everything the book contains there. I priced it economically so every writer could get one. http://www.amazon.com/The-Business-of-Writing-ebook/dp/B007A2741Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329595829&sr=8-1

Debra Moore

www.moorebookkeeping.com

Moore Bookkeeping—because you went into business to make money, not count it.

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Cool for life and writing!

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have “essential” and “long overdue” meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

J.K. ROWLING

Tuesday morning. Check. Writing. Check.

According to my writing schedule today is a morning to be spent writing. There is something about writing in the morning that other times during the day pale in contrast to, at least for me. There’s a serenity to it, before anyone else’s wants, needs and demands have to be tended to you get to tease your characters into showing up dressed in their finest, pour yourself a cup of coffee and at times, stare at a blank page.

I’ve determined every story, every character has a process, none are the same. This can also be said for my daily schedules and in spite of knowing the serenity of morning writing sessions, it is too easy to give in to turning over in the bed and throwing the covers over my head, thinking “Tomorrow, I’ll get up tomorrow.” Amid, all the distractions sometimes WE are the greatest of them all. I say that to say this as I salute you with a hot cup of breakfast blend coffee with my favorite cinnamon vanilla cream, “Good Morning, and here’s to one more day of being able to do what I love; write.” And that deserves protecting!

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