Sunday, February 17, 2013

You know you are a writer when....


 You know you are a writer when:

  1. You are a hoarder of office supplies.  The perfect tipped pen is worth more to you than a new car.
  2. You are attracted to strange characters, not for yourself but for your writing.  And they get tired of you dissecting their life.
  3. You are the one asking all the strange questions.   “Tell me a little bit more about that naked in the wrong locker room dream.”
  4. The right combination of words sometimes is better than sex.
  5. People often catch you talking to yourself, when it’s actually an argument with a character in your mind.  Some of them will not shut up!
  6. You don’t get mad at people, you simply add them to your novel with the specific intention of killing them off.
  7. You freak your friends out because you are constantly carrying a small notebook with you.  Especially when in mid conversation, you chuckled stop and write something down.
  8. All your friends go running when you mention the dreaded “writer’s block,” because that is all you will talk about until it is gone.
  9. You think it is perfectly normal to stalk the couple in the restaurant in the airport arguing to overhear their conversation.
  10.   You think daydreaming is completely normal, especially when you have something to write down afterwards.
  11.   You are great friends with the cashier at the bookstore, but can’t remember your child’s teacher’s first name.
  12.   A sale at Barnes and Noble is better than sex.
  13.   You have to have a grieving process when you finish a great book, either one you read or one you wrote.
  14.   Your delete key is the most worn key on your computer.
  15.   Someone besides your family members reads your blogs.

What would you add to the list?

1 comment:

  1. You have multiple notebooks everywhere so that when inspiration hits, you are ready to write it down.. Now remembering which book and where it is, well that's another story!

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