You know you're a writer when...
- You have 5-20 characters living inside of your head and they have opinions on EVERYTHING that happens in reality.
- You say you have to write, your friends tell you don't have to and you stare at them blankly for a moment before shaking your head in shame at their inferiority.
- you have 7 thesaurus tabs open on your computer and it's still not enough (but you can't have very many more or firefox will crash again)
- you correct peoples grammar in the middle of casual conversations.
-You lie awake at night worrying about how your main character will get out of their most recent sticky situation.
-You find yourself staring into someone's eyes, wondering how you will convey the color in your novel.
-When you randomly mention not knowing something about your character or plot, people say "Well you're the author, you're in control" and you stare at them for a minute, confused.
-You spend more time with your characters than real people.
-You spend days locked in your room doing nothing but writing.
-You lie in bed with your earphones plugged in and you try to imagine your book as a movie.
-You try to fix your life by trying to act more like one of your characters who are more successful at life then you.
-You smuggle the family laptop into your room, long after bedtime, to write.
-You sit down, spend thirty minutes with a blank page, then suddenly write a really long chapter exactly when you're supposed to go to bed.
-You're friends call you a loner for writing at the library during break...
-Your personal hygiene is substandard. Because all that time doing silly things like "brushing your teeth" or "taking a shower" can be used FOR WRITING!!
-You keep a recorder near your bed to get your ideas down if you wake up at 1AM trying to figure out the next event of your book...
-You figured out every thought, idea, and opinion you couldn't say out loud, could be splattered onto paper, and would always sound so much better when read.
-Fiction and reality begin to fade, when black and white turn to grey, and when you look past people's appearances and into their soul.When words become art, and when you find yourself wishing to belong to the world you've created.
-You never know what your characters are going to do next.
-You forget to sleep because you're writing.
-Seemingly irrelevant things inspire ideas for a new story.
-Everyone around you thinks you're insane when you refer to your characters as 'voices in your head.'
-You know what a plot bunny is and rightfully fear it.
-You have the capacity to write and use it PROPERLY.
-You have a notebook full of detailed ideas for books you have never written yet
-You begin to describe things in your life with inexplicably strange and atypical adjectives you would never use in your everyday conversations
-You're trying to find out what a character will look like/be named and then you see someone and base a character off of them
-You turn to your MC and ask him/her what s/he would do in a situation.
-You refer to yourself and others in the third person.
-Keys are faded/missing on your keyboard because you type so much.
-You read books you know are bad so you can know what not to do.
-You're well-versed in classic literature so you can quote or borrow plot elements from it.
-Your Google search history shows the most random things, often times things that would concern others (such as "Deadliest poison in the world" and "Effect of [chemical] on body" etc).
-You stay up late writing, wake up the next morning, and not recognize your writing.
-You listen to a song and think "This totally explains [character]'s situation/life story!"
-As your walking along the street you randomly find yourself descriptively narrating everything/ everyone you see in your head.
-You feel a swell of anger when someone uses the words 'they're'/ 'there' and 'you're'/ 'your' wrong.
-After coming out of a funny/ sad/ ecstatic strange situation you immediately wonder how you could effectively convey it in a short story.
-You have a thesaurus/ dictionary in your room...and you actually use it.
-Your arms are constantly covered in little scribbled ink notes of words or phrases you heard that could be used in your book because you didn't have paper handy.
-You find yourself on a NaNoWriMo forum
-You stay up all night writing, just because you're on a roll
-You're constantly thinking about your novel, characters, and writing in general
-You'd rather stay inside and write then go out with friends
-You accidentally use thesaurus words in daily language
-You sit at home all weekend writing your little heart out because the ideas just keep coming, or the ideas have come but you don't want to stop for anything.
-You suddenly freak out because you think you've misplaced your flash drive, even though its still in your bag (this has happened to me before, quite scary)
-You pull out the old thesaurus to help out a decent sentence that could be great if only that one word was a little bigger.
-Someone comes along and really likes something you wrote, even if you wrote in two minutes just for fun.
-You're in the middle of something (anything), and suddenly you're like "HOLY SHOOT BRB I JUST GOT AN IDEA!" and run straight to your computer.
-Your art projects begin to reflect what happens in your novel.
-You give everyone you meet a complex back story that follows the "Hero's Journey" format.
-You become completely absorbed in pop culture from the time period you write about.
-Your conversations with friends turn to 'Who defiled my notebook with 'Bossasaurus Rex?'
-You open your lunchbox, take out your sandwich, and forget to eat it because a character is in trouble.
-You dress completely differently for a day to know your character better.
-You watch TV and a character on a show says something and you think 'That would be a good title for my next book!'
-You find yourself having dreams inside your book.
-You fall asleep on your computer.
-You randomly start talking about your MC and the other person stares at you and asks "What are you talking about?" So you just stare at them and imagine which character they would be in your book.
-None of your friends know what NaNoWriMo stands for but you.
-You think about your MC's life situation more than your own.
-Your characters come and visit you... When no one else is in the room, of course.
-You are more concerned with your novel than the real world.
-Something happens, and you immediately rush to the computer because it fits perfectly into your story.
-No one knows what you're talking about the vast majority of the time.
Some of those might be repeats...I just felt like compiling a list that others had already started...I just made the list more complete with everyone's thoughts is all...if you have more to add let me know :D
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