21 Most Annoying Things About Being a Writer

Yesterday on my Facebook page I shared a link from BuzzFeed about the 25 Worst Things About Being A Graphic Designer. It was funny and completely true, but it occurred to me they’d probably never have one for writers. So I’ve decided to make one up of my own. Tomorrow (maybe) I’ll do a best of… just fyi lot’s of gifs ahead and it’s a little (okay a lot) NSFW.

#1 Everybody and their grandmother thinks their a writer:

#2 Because self publishing has made it easier for anyone to be published it’s harder than ever to get noticed. 

a literary where’s waldo

#3 Family doesn’t take it seriously. (Even if parents or significant other is okay with it there’s always going to be someone who says… when are you gonna get a real job?)

#4 Unless your name is J.K.Rowling, Stephen King, Jackie Collins or E.L. James it isn’t particularly lucrative. 

can I pay this bill with Monopoly money?

#5 This question: So what do you like to write about?

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#6 People who say, They want to be a writer they just don’t have the time. 

#7 People who want to know if you’ll write a story for them or about them. 

#8 Having someone ask you to read their writing and trying to find a nice way to say it’s horrible. 

#9 Reading the latest hot trend and wondering why the hell it was ever published in the first place. 

#10 Fifty Shades of Twilight

#11 Non-writers get touchy when you correct their grammar

#12 The knowledge that your Google Search History would look really bad if it was ever taken into court. 

#13 Having to Google search how to poison someone without feeling like the FBI is about to knock on your door. 

#14 For as much information may be readily available 98% of it is absolute unusable bullshit and the other 3% is impossible to find. 

#15 Having to research an obscure bit of information for a novel

#16 A word that is right on the tip of your tongue but for the life of you you can’t remember it and it sends you into a rage. 

#17 Getting distracted by in depth research of a minor element into your book because it’s actually really fascinating. 

#18 Finding yourself lost in a marathon of social networking and realizing you’ve written nothing new in a week. 

#19 Seeing commercials for the remake of an already terrible movie and knowing it should be the movie version of your book up there instead. 

because fifty remakes of the same shitty film really needs to happen.

#20 Movie versions of books not living up to expectations. 

#21 People who say books are dying.