In the interest of avoiding actually working on rewriting the outline, I instead decided to pass the morning updating my writing expense database, which I haven't done at all this year. With my two Con memberships and having joined Pike Peak Writers, I'm already considerably "in the hole" this year as far as expenses go. The good thing is that last year I decided to buy a two year subscription to Locus and so won't have that expense this year, nor the renewal of my domain. I'm wondering though if I should put my LJ renewal in my expenses this year (I think it's debatable whether I can truly deduct it as an expense, since it's not %100 about writing, but at the same time is a very large part of my writing promotion.). It's interesting to note that thus far this year I've only sent out 1 snail mail sub. I was expecting filing the taxes this year to be a rather rigorous and hair-tearing experience, but in fact it wasn't all that bad (though I probably didn't make enough to actually have to claim my meager writing earnings, we decided it was better to be safe than sorry and cover our asses, so the IRS can't come back later and tell me I should have. After all, last year I made the most I've ever made on writing and even turned a profit after deducting my expenses.).

Anyway, the database is up-to-date now and I have no more excuses to not work on rewriting the outline. :)