You know you're a writer when...

Hopefully this hasn't been done yet!

You know you're a writer when you teach your three year old sister to read and write. You may also be tutoring them in grammar.

You know you're a writer when you do a peer assessment in class, and then, when you see somebody's five paragraph essay, you write two paragraphs of critique for each paragraph because it's full of grammar mistakes and the like.

Happened to me. I call it a YWS critique.

You know you're a writer when complete strangers catch you talking to yourself in corridors and the like, because you're playing out a scene in your head for something you want to write (and they ask you who you're talking to...)...

You know you're a writer when you read fourteen pages of 'you know you're a writer's, and the main character of the story you're *supposed* to be writing is still laughing at each one, saying 'yeh, you do that.'

I don't have anything to add, but someone should publish a book with all of these things in it! I would so buy it!

West- Oh yeah. Happens to me.

xD West. So true.

You know you're a writer when your older sister asks you what words you once thought were blatantly obvious mean.

You know you're a writer when you feel like asking for money any time somebody asks you to write something. You'd make a fortune!

I was just rereading all of these and came up with quite a bit.

You know you're a writer when at the somputer lab, people who've been through the school's typing course, stare at you and say, “Wow, how can you type that fast?”. You reply, “I tend to, erm, write a lot. What . . .don't you?”

You know you're a writer when people go, “You are actually writing for fun? Who does that?.” You are confused.

You know you're a writer when you're babysitting your siblings, and they're playing fairies and want you to join . . . You make yourself the writing fairy.

You know you're a writer when you give you're friend a notebook for her birthday. You suddenly realize that she isn't a writer. A couple of days later she comes and tells you that you've inspired her to write, and she actually likes it! You skip around the room for awhile. Then you plan to make all of your friends writers, that way.

You know you're a writer when you read dictionaries and thesauruses like they are novels . . . just to widen your vocabulary.

You know you're a writer when English is the only class that you don't sleep through.

You know you're a writer when Microsoft word is one of your “favorites” on your computer.

You know you're a writer when you've already thought of a pen name, and have been practicing how to sign with it. Once someone asked you what you're name was . . . guess what you said.

All of these are true stories.

you know you're a writer when, due to editing and proof reading, you can recite most of your written novel.

You know you're a writer when you start looking for agents, even if you haven't finished a book yet.

You know you're a writer when you argue with people. And when you argue, you speak as if you were one of your own characters.

You're even more of a writer if the person you're arguing with gets confused and you start a ridiculously long explanation on who the character is, what their purpose in the novel is, and every single word of their biography and future.

And you're an even bigger writer when you carry on talking about the character, even though the person has already left.

You're a writer if you winced when I started the previous sentence with 'and'.

You know you're a writer when in class when you're supposed to be paying attention, you're trying to think up of good plot ideas.

When you have conversations (out loud or in your head) with your characters.

When you start to think your characters are real people.

When you're friends stop correcting you from referring to them as real people.

When people come to you for editing since apparently you do a really good job (just found this out... apparently I'm really good at it. =/)

You know you're a writer when subjects other than writing/reading cease to interest you.

You know you're a writer when you grit your teeth when your friends who aren't so into writing ask you to read over their work, and when you give them a full critique of it they say, "I just wanted to know if you liked it or not....I didn't need to know all of this..."