Yes! My husband makes fun of me because I carry a notebook everywhere, but hey...you never know when inspiration will strike!
When you hear a high school football game in the distance and suddenly you have 2 old high school friends talking about an upcoming Homecoming game and how one of them can't make it and comments about it being the first one he missed in 10 years... er... or rather I guess. When you hear something or see something and suddenly have 2 characters having a conversation a few seconds later. Happened to me last night.
LOL. No really, laughed out loud at that one! Don't anticipate being able to support myself on the proceeds of my writing but I look forward to it nonetheless. You know you're a writer when ... someone asks you what you do and, without thinking, you reply, "I'm a writer."
You know you're a writer when you start angrily muttering grammar corrections at the news anchorpeople.
OMG! I do it! Except it's not so sub-conscious for me, and it has nothing to do with the plot of my novel. And when you start picking apart artices written by other people because they make constant AP Style errors.
...you feel like giving it all up (writing that is, not life!) because you noticed you've used the word "but" too many times in your latest work. (Or is that just me?)
...when in the middle of some random activity you stop everything you're doing, and start pacing back and forth across the room, deep in thought, planning out the story idea that unexpectedly popped into your head. Holy damn, I did exactly that at work a few days ago.
Ok, it makes me so happy that I'm not the only one who does that. I probably do this on a daily basis. Who knows how many times I've circled my dining room table. You know you're a writer when you find chapter books written by you from forth grade. You know you're a writer when you're always stuck in a story you're working on, even when you're at work or school, and can't snap out of this constant daydream.
Alas, I'm in that situation right now ... I have a job that bores me to tears (when it's not stressing me to death) and I dream of spending my days writing. I could write for the rest of my life and not get through the stories I have notes for right now. Argh.
Yeah minstrel, I hear you. I have enough ideas for books to easily write solid for the next five years. If only I had the capital to live while I write. Jobs are a necessary evil.
When you end up bumping into people because you're too busy scribbling on a scrap bit of paper whilst walking.
When you find yourself mumbling out ideas out loud, saying things like "Nah, wouldn't work because Susan has to do xyz" and don't seem to care that the others are giving you WTF lookis and are backing away.
. . .Something you see in the media or in your own life bothers you to the point that you decide to write it down or reflect your same emotions in your current writing.
No! Not true!! ... *Hands Amos Garnier and Heridon Copper Sam Adams beers* Cheers, mates! EDIT: I've seen troubling things on the news or in personal also that I want to write about.
when you get so encased in a writing that u forget everything around you, and the first loud bang sound sends you flying into air with the first thing you can grab at a ready to take on the world.... and then you realize that it was just the cat that knocked a book onto the floor from the chair next to you.
When you can't watch a TV show without grabbing a pen and jotting down a prompt, based on what's on the show taken in a different direction.
...when you call in sick to your regular job and even pretend you're sick to your spouse so that you can stay home for the day and write.
