You know you're a writer when...

you guys make me laugh. All so true

You know you're a writer when writing becomes more difficult for you than it is for normal people.

Or when you have an english final in an hour, and instead of cramming, you surf YWS (guilty)

You know you're a writer if you've typed one of these at an exceptionally fast speed.

You know your a writer when people ask you why you are talking to yourself, and you tell them that they just rudely interrupted a very important conversation with your main character.You know your a writer when people ask you why you are talking to yourself, and you tell them that they just rudely interrupted a very important conversation with your main character.

You know you're a writer when you get dictionary.com's word of the day email.

You know you're a writer when your friends call to invite you to a movie, and you tell them that you can't go because your muse will kill you if you don't finish this chapter.

Vivacious wrote:You know you're a writer when you get dictionary.com's word of the day email.

You can get it emailed?! Awesome!

You know you're a writer when the first question anyone asks you is "So, hows your story going?"
You know you're a writer when your mom asks you to proof read her emails.

silverSUNLIGHTx wrote:haha, all that is so true.

You know you're a writer when life is one big storybook and you constantly narrate it in your head.

I did that for YEARS, and it got really old though so I finally trained myself to stop, but I still do it sometimes. :]

Yay I'm not crazy! I did that too until I about a year ago when I just suddenly quit. Actually, I might've quit around the time I started writing...

- you keep old pieces of your writing to read and reassure yourself on how much better you've gotten

- you stay up until 1:30 in the morning rewriting a novel that was technically "done" six months ago (how i spent last night)

- you don't mind when a family member forgets to call because you spent the entire day writing

- your biggest fear when it comes to storms is the power will go out and you won't be able to write

- you refer to your stories as your "children"

Your parents are constantly urging to to develop some other hobby than what they call, "sitting typing away on that darnded laptop all day long."

Yes! I live in constant fear that my mom will decide I spend too much time on the computer and take it away.

...you volunteer to do the dishes because for some reason every time you do, you get past writers block. (I am so guilty of this one. I did the dishes and wrote 11,000 words on a Saturday once)

...the kids at school call you "Novelist" (I swear to my writing I told a boy I'm a novelist and now that's what he calls me)

...you like it when it rains because it gives you an excuse to stay inside and write all day (like today )

...you look forward to summer vacation because you'll have more time to write.

...you want to go to the beach just so you can sit in a chair and write

...you refuse to go on vacation unless you can take the laptop with you

...you have a pen and a piece of paper tucked into the inside pocket of your winter coat "just in case"

...you go to a track meet to watch your crush, but end up sitting in the car because you had a story idea that you just had to write down (Guilty)

...at night you hook yourself up to an IV of coffee. Extra caffeinated.

I like to drink monsters just because every time I do, I write a ton. But unfortunately, I don't have any right now...

...you make up words for the fantasy world in your story, and begin to use them in real life.

...your mom thinks you're crazy because you asked her if her characters ever surprised her by doing something she wasn't planning when she was writing.

-You get really excited when you get a flash drive. (True story)

I was. And then it broke and I lost 10,000 words from a novel and about two weeks worth of work. I cried for about three hours straight, but eventually ended up finishing the novel.

You obsessively make back ups of your files, because you know that if you lost your documents, you'd cry.

^^

....you hate to grade someone else's essay in school because you want to write all over it in red ink.

That is so me! I had to read two essays and I just wanted to cover them both in red ink, but I couldn't.

...you have so many plastic bottles, etc in your room it looks like a landfill. And you don't care.

We should write a book on this, 101 ways you know you're a writer.

Hehe I was going to suggest that.

...you have a long-running joke with your writer mother about 'stealing each others creative juices.' (I do. When one of us has writer's block we blame it on the other person.)

your mother kicks you off the computer at 10:00 pm

...your mother catches you trying to hide the laptop under the covers because you were writing in the dark at midnight on a school night. (did this. Almost got in big trouble for it, mostly because I was hiding the laptop under my covers)

...you flip out because you can't think of what you want to say next in your story. Which results in your running around the backyard in the rain trying to think of an idea. (I did this a few minutes ago. I'm crazy, I know, but it works.)

-You know you're a writer when you look forward to your English/Creative Writing class everyday.

I'm taking that class next year and I can't wait.

-You know you're a writer when, even though she's not your teacher anymore, you still like to talk to/hang out with your Creative Writing teacher from a previous year, and you still have her read your writing and bounce ideas off of her every now and again - which she also does in return. xD (Okay, so this probably only pertains to me... Because I tend to hang out with people that aren't my age--more like three times my age, but still. She's awesome.)

It's not just you...

You know your a writer when you scribble down story ideas in the middle of class and then start writing a story using those ideas once you get home.

Guilty! History class is so good for that.

...you spend lunch in the library instead of with your friends.

...you realize the last five letters of your baby niece's name is the title for your novel and take it as a sign. (I swear this happened to me!)

...you can't wait for your baby niece to be old enough to read so you can write a novel, just for her.

...you want to be a published author just so you can write fanfiction about your own characters.

...you already write fanfiction about your own characters even though the novel isn't done yet.

You know you're a writer when you copy and paste every point in this thread for curiosities sake.

...I was planning on doing that later...

You can get it emailed?! Awesome!

That was so not my reaction... *sneaks off to add name to e-mail list*

You know when you're a writer when you take a notebook, a pencil and a book to a wedding and people have to constantly say "Stop reading!", "Pay attention!", " We are in church for God's sake" and "Stop writing, EAT!" and so much more...

you're a writer when your mom say "IS this writing for school?"

you're a writer when all of the sudden your personality trnasformed into your main charatcer's personality

you're a writer when you don't need all those hi-tech games and don't watch tv shows because you're alwasy daydreaming of your characters

You know you're a writer when...OH! I just got inspiration for a story!

...I was planning on doing that later...

I stopped a few pages ago. The count of everything posted is around 460. Probably 500 now.

You know you're a writer when someone says, "Oh, you're writing a story. How big is it?" and you answer, "Approximately 40,007 words, 250,000 characters, eight chapters, ninety-seven pages, with 1.2 line spacing and size 10 font Arial, and counting. Approximately." And you get a blank stare.



~Sunny

You know you're a writer when whenever you watch a movie, you wonder how to exactly translate it into a novel.

You know you're a writer when even though some guy you really liked played you and it hurt like hell, it gives you an excuse to write a million poems about how much of an ass he is, how the rejection hurt exactly, and heartbreak from different points of view.

You know you're a writer then you have muscles in your forearms from typing.

You know you're a writer when somebody asks what you're working on, you give them a blank stare and ask "which one?" (Because you have at least two projects on the go, oftentimes more)

You know you're a writer when you work out to clear you head after writing too long.