Want to win a free membership to Narrativity 2021, for yourself or a friend? Here’s how:

First, help promote the con on any social media. Like the Facebook page or join the group. Tweet/retweet. Subscribe to the website. Post about it on your blog, journal, or forums. Pretty much anything that helps get the word out about Narrativity counts!

Then, ( Read more... )

I needed to accomplish something on this gray and chilly day, so I decided to try the IRS website again.

Site's back up! So I tried to file the 990-N. Or rather:

I set up a user account for e-Postcard filing. This is a multi-step process with security and site images and challenge questions and confirmation emails. Finally got that set up.

Then I ( Read more... )

I set today aside to catch up on convention stuff, including tax filings and other bureacracy.

The tax thing has been a learning experience indeed, but the practical upshot is that a tiny little organization like Narrativity need only file a 990-N. Sounds pretty painless. Only trick is that in our situation, we first need to register with the IRS ( Read more... )

Running a convention will eat your life. I don't know that anyone who's done it or even watched it up close would dispute that. And yes, I accepted that going in.

However. I have been catching myself lately, when I've finished the things I said I would do this session, looking around and thinking "What else can I do for the con?" Not, notably ( Read more... )

I have an idea for a flyer for the con which is based around a particular font.* I remember the font quite clearly and am quite sure I have it, but an exhaustive (and exhausting) search of my font files failed to turn it up ( Read more... )

So, that Thing I've been alluding to for the past few months? Well, after a long and crazy ride, and scaling more learning curves than I can rightly count, and one last fake-out from the god Murphy, I can finally introduce you to:

Narrativity!It's a convention. It's a party. It's going to be a darned good time, and it's happening in Minneapolis ( Read more... )

The Thing is so very, very close to going public.

And I am so very, very tired.

Watch this space.............

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For the second day running, I ache all over, and I have no energy or motivation whatsoever. Road kill would be frisky by comparison ( Read more... )

Okay, I didn't expect the writing numbers to be good this month; I pretty much gave myself permission to abandon writing entirely in order to get that non-writing project I keep alluding to done. Not a choice I'm happy about, but trying to do it all was only making me feel squashed to a grease-spot. So ( Read more... )

You know you've been doing too much when you're happy to go to the Day Job, because it means you get a break.

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