Facts About the Writer in Me

I read the author bio on the jacket flap at least 3 times in the course of the book. (Before I buy it, mid-way through, and once I finish).
I watch movies and think about how it would have played out as words on a page.
New story ideas come to me when I’m writing a current story, thus throwing my current story off track.
I critique other author’s head-shots/profile pictures. (That one is uber cool/that one looks horrible).
I’ll go weeks without checking Amazon stats, then suddenly start checking every hour.
I ponder which celebrities actually wrote their books and who had ghost writers, then get upset that celebrities get book deals like it’s a Wendy’s drive-thru, yet I love to read their books more than most other books…then I feel guilty about this.
I lose hope in my writing and gain hope like a game of Chutes and Ladders.
Either I accidentally starve myself or I accidentally over-eat when I write.
I’m severely jealous of those who get to write full-time, then wonder about their possible lack of health insurance.
I dream of my stories as movies or TV, then remember when I tried screenplay writing for a year, and it was horribly terribly awful.

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Published on September 05, 2016 10:01
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