La Vie Boheme

Lisa, Inc.?

I've started really considering the implications lately of writing for profit and being a 'business'. My goal is to eventually quit the day job and write full-time, which means I need to start paying attention to the business aspects. Fortunately, it seems like working with accounting and accounting software as much as I do at the day job, I'm not quite as clueless as I thought I was. Now, however, I really do need to get my organizational skills together for things like recordkeeping, and actually plan things, instead of just doing what feels right all the time (not to knock my intuition, but a little planning can't hurt).

I'd like to start taking the office-in-home credit, for starters. And to do that, I really do need to get a desk I can actually write at. Although I have this great little separate office space (which in most homes would be a dining room), my desk is too small and too low and too cramped for me to comfortably sit and write at. So first on the wish list, a new desk -- which I really can't afford right now. I'm seriously considering asking for one for my birthday, instead of the overnight trip Mom and I were going to take.

If nothing else, having a good desk will save me the cost of going to Starbucks to write every morning, right? :)