You know you're a writer when...

You know you're a writer when you view your life (and your friend's) in plot-form and wonder daily how you could spruce it up a bit.^_^

~Mel

Related to the above - you know you're a writer when you imagine yourself and your friends in troublesome, life-threatening and dramatic situations just for fun.

Hawkie wrote:Related to the above - you know you're a writer when you imagine yourself and your friends in troublesome, life-threatening and dramatic situations just for fun.

I thought I was the only one who did that...

I thought I was the only one who did that...

Yehehe, isn't it fun?

You know you're a writer when you think of hooks for waking up every morning.

(for example, "I wouldn't have woke up, except for the fact that there was an unruly taste in my mouth that, without a nice, long brush, would not be tamed.")

when you form inside jokes with yourself involving your story characters and laugh out loud sometimes in public when you're reminded of one of those jokes.

Haha, I do that Dreamy.

You know your a writer when, you English teacher tells you to write a one page story on someone with a difficult goal to achieve and you write a 60 page novella in one night.

~ You know you're a writer when not having a pen and paper on hand in some form is akin to a mortal sin.

(My wonderfully supportive but non-writing friend admonishes me if I ever am caught in her presence without paper and pen. It all comes of her having seen me scrabble for a highlighter and sticky note one too many times.)

~ You know you're a writer when, to keep your mind of off stressors, you force yourself to start mentally plotting.

(When I'm overly anxious about school, or just dealing with stress, I make myself think about my characters' next actions.)

~ You know you're a writer when, to keep your mind of off stressors, you force yourself to start mentally plotting.

(When I'm overly anxious about school, or just dealing with stress, I make myself think about my characters' next actions.)

You know you're a writer when you use your characters to get your mind off just about anything.

You know you’re a writer when you write in the middle of crying. Then later convince yourself it's the best time to do so since all your emotion comes spewing out.

You know you’re a writer when you have to put two spaces in between sentences. Then you get frustrated with character limits.

You know you’re a writer when you have to type apostrophes and quotation marks even though its easier to just use the foot note and inch mark sympbols. Or you even knew there was a difference to begin with.
(footnote: ' apostrophe: ’ inch mark: " quotation marks: “ and ”)

You know you're a writer when it drives you nuts to see anything other than three periods for ellipses. (It's not supposed to even be periods because the spaces between the dots are closer to each other. To be typographically correct it's supposed to be typed with alt-codes. three periods: ... ellipses: … )

You know you're a writer when...

...the teacher says "who" instead of "whom" and you correct them.

...you sometimes think in 3rd person.

... you are made fun of for using long words.

...you know how to spell supercalifragilisticexpialadocious and you've never seen that movie in your life.

You know you're a writer when you have to write things out in order to make sense of them.

You know you're a writer when you start talking about someone you know to your friends only for them to stare at you oddly. Then you realize that you've been going on about things happening to your fictional character, in their fictional world, and that half the stuff you just said could never have happened in the real life world.

You know you're a writer when you still tell your friends the above things about your fictional character in their fictional world, and expect them to care. When they don't care, you tell them anyways because you're too darn excited about it.

You know you're a writer when you have to write things out in order to make sense of them.

You know you're a writer when you can scribble down several disjointed sentences in random order and be able to recall an entire story from them.

You know you're a writer when...

You narrate your life inside your head, weighing out the benefits of first and third person, present and future tense. Even though you're telling your story as it happens, you go with third person and past tense.

Also!

you know you're a writer when you imagine yourself and your friends in troublesome, life-threatening and dramatic situations just for fun.

Me too!

You know you're a writer when you have a brilliant idea in the shower, and you start writing it all over the steam-covered shower stall.

And when you get a brainwave while going to the toilet and you pee extra fast, and try and catch the edges of the idea with your mind before it flutters away.

By the way, I loved all of everyone else's ideas.