oh, the glamour of the writing life

[swan_tower]

I spent most of the morning wrestling with the IRS website.

Don't you wish you could have such an exciting life?

Comments

[unforth.livejournal.com]

I spent the morning packing. Just like yesterday morning, and the morning before that, and the morning before THAT. Want to trade? :)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Since my morning's work will (eventually) result in a check with my name on it, no. ^_^

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Well, that's good. I take it the problem was sorted out, then?

And that comment of mine was rather whiny, sorry about that...I'm actually almost done, so that's good anyway. ;)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Not so much a problem as jumping through bureaucratic hoops to make sure I don't get double-taxed on the money from the German translation sale of Doppelganger and Warrior and Witch. I had to fill out a form to get some other forms that will prove I'm a U.S. resident so I can give those to other people so they will give me my money, bypassing German taxes.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

I spent the day translating Finnish literary criticism.

And got about two usable lines from it all.

When does the glamour begin?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Wooo Finnish!

I tried to study it a few years ago, but rapidly realized the class was taught in such a way that I wouldn't achieve translation competence for about three years, and dropped out.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

There's something about repeated letters that I have great difficulty in translating. So Finnish is particularly difficult for me.

But I've turned up information on a Finnish knock-off of Tarzan, appearing in 1940, raised on bear's milk and charging out of the Arctic Circle to fight the Soviets in the Winter War--this, from a magazine published in 1940 in Finland.

Which is, I think, pretty cool, and worth the headaches translating Finnish gives me.

IRS

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't this the type of stuff that your agent should handle? Isn't that what you pay her the "big bucks" for?

Re: IRS

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

She's my literary agent, not my tax accountant. She (working with their foreign rights agent and co-agents overseas) got me the deal and sent me the necessary forms, but I still have to fill them out. And when things go awry (as they did in this case), I could sit on my butt and make somebody else send me everything again, but that would make the entire process slower than it's already been.

Re: IRS

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I guess that makes sense.