You know you're a writer when...

You start imagining every next page of the book you are reading.

You get inspiration from conversations that have nothing to do with writing.

Your probably on the FBI watch list for the weird stuff you look up for writing purposes. Like "how long does it take for someone to die if they were to get stabbed in the neck artery?"

Even techno gives you plot ideas for a completely different time era.
.... That doesn't work, does it. :/

Your instinctive reaction to hearing a song is to figure out which character of yours it relates to.

If you write fanfiction then you get ticked if someone won't read it just because it's fanfiction.

When you try to figure out how you would describe the sidewalk. I still can't decide if it is a dirty white, or light gray. And then you have to think about how to describe the cracks running out from the tree branch...

When everything around you becomes an object for observation, every conversation a way to find things for your characters to say, every person on the street a potential character-image, every circumstance and incident...

You know you are a writer when you can't stop writing, you just need to write or at least think about the plot, the characters, the scene. And you won't stop until you feel like your work is good enough. It is when your purpose is not just for fun but to give people a mindblow story or lesson for life. I believe that deep inside all writers want to affect the reader's mind in somehow, like teaching them something or gift them the unforgettable stories.

You know you're a writer when you write scenes in your head instead of sleeping at night.

You know you're a writer when you mentally write out scenes for the TV shows you're watching.

You know you're a writer when your characters are better friends than your real friends and it physically pains you to be away from them for an extended period.

You know you're a writer when you try to make every song match up to your story, no matter how unrelated it is.

You know you're a writer when you practice drawing specifically so you can draw your characters because no one else will draw them for you.

You know you're a writer when you look at the teeny-tiny details of a person, their features, their mannerisms, and wonder how you'd describe them on paper as one of your characters.

You know you're a writer when you see a beetle struggling to cross the vast distance of the living room floorboards, and suddenly you have an entire galaxy with several sub-plots matching up with a main plot and characters that seem to just fit in that world, and you're sitting there going, "I was just looking at a beetle, oh my gosh brain!"

You know you're a writer when you try to put eloquent words in your everyday vocabulary, just to mess with people. Then you give them a deadpan expression after they ask what the words means. Well, it was your own damn fault for using that word!

You know you're a writer when you've spent the last five hours looking up different names in different languages, Googling variants of words, and plugging random words into Google Translate to see if you can find something (anything) you can use.

You know you're writer when you actually sit down and have the dedication to finish a story or poem.

You know you're a writer when someone says a word and you start thinking up all the various synonyms to it. You also know you're a writer when you spend all night reflecting on one nonchalant, unimportant sentence and how you could have phrased it with better grammar, description, clearer, more concise, and poetically.