You Might Be A Writer If...

You might be a writer if... you spend more time sleeping at your desk than in bed because every freakin time your head hits the pillow, a line of description or dialogue enters your head, and out comes the notepad...

...you see someone on a train who totally embodies a character in your novel, and sneakily take photos of them on your phone. If you're really ballsy you ask them to pose.

...you have to limit your showers to ten minutes because that's the maximum amount of time you can go before your brain temp files are full and you have to write things down

 

You might be a writer if...

You take routine showers, more than the number of showers an average person takes because that is where your best ideas are born.

 

You might be a writer if...

you can write.

 

...if you feel free about using grammatic/stylistic unconventialities (perhaps derided by some.)

 

You might be a writer if... you enthusiastically tell a storyline to a friend and when they reply with "Oh, so kind of like (popular tv show)" you suddenly can't stand the person.

(NO GOD DAMN IT! It's not like BONES! It's nothing likes BONES! I created it and I hate you now!)

 

You might be a writer if... you have a lot of feelings about grammar and punctuation.

 

You might be a writer if... You can't go an hour without creating scenarios for your characters.

 

You might be a writer if... you write more words in math then numbers.

You might be a writer if... you can at something so simple, but see something so complex.

 

You might be a writer if you find yourself thinking of ways to reword an overheard conversation.

 

You might be a writer if you recognize the gift of language in others, admiring how they speak, the sentence constructions they use extemporaneously, the fresh metaphors they seem able to pop off the tops of their heads.

 

You might be a writer if...

...you critique writing books.

...as you write at your computer, people stare at you because you keep making faces.

...you can write a detailed thesis on your favorite fictitious character.

 

You might be a writer if you think through certain scenes of your book as you lie in bed: bedtime stories for writers.

You also might be a writer if you text with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

 

...you find yourself editing other peoples words and papers.

 

You might be a writer if you think more about your characters than yourself.

You might be a writer if you worry more about your characters' lives than your own life.

 

Is it bad that I've actually done this?

 

I certainly hope not!

You might be a writer if you pay more attention to how someone is yelling at you than what they are angry about.

 

You might be a writer if:

~ You can't wait to go to bed because then you can read/write the next chapter of your character's life in your head.
~ It bugs you that people don't use correct punctuation or grammer or use "text speech."
~ Someone says "lol" rather than actually laughing.
~ When someone asks, "What are the two things you would have with you on a deserted island?" and you reply "Pens and paper."
~ You are able to proof-read your own term paper.

(These are all very true for me.)

 

LOL I have totally done this.

 

I have never heard someone actually say "lol." Does anybody really do that?

You might be a writer if ... you love "snow days" not because you get to go out sledding, but because it's an excuse to stay home and write.

You might be a writer if ... you keep a special space on your bookshelf that you will never put a book in, because you've reserved it for your OWN book.

 

You might be a writer if writing seems like the only way to end your miseries.

You might be a writer if writing isn't a hobby anymore, but a religion.

 

You might be a writer if you are never bored.

 

I have, unfortunetly, heard people say lol out loud. In fact, I've caught myself a couple times about to say "lol". How sad is that!?

 

No comment.

 

LOL!

This is very true. I haven't been properly bored in years.

 

I've never been properly bored in years either.