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You know you're a writer if...
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Sorry. I have issues.
xD Probably.
You know you're a crazy writer when your characters are talking in your head.
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Θήρα (Thera) LIKE A BOSS wrote: "It is. :D My first ever fountain pen. I've wanted it since my mom learned calligraphy."My world would be incomplete without my fountain pen. I've had it since I was eight or nine, I think.
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Oh no! D: Man, I freak out if I lose like, a page of something I've written. That freaking sucks...
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If that every happened to me, I might as well throw the computer out the window. Imagine how satisfying the thwack might sound!
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I don't keep files in my computer. I use the iPad.
...if you have more ideas than you would ever have time to write stories about.
if your up all night trying to figure out ways through whatever your writing and you phone a friend and they ask 'a way though what, your relationship with that man your with, just dump him, hes not good enough for you'and I'm like 'No, my book, the plot is literally falling to pieces' and the friend has nothing to say to that
...I didn't get it until I reread it six times. Please use correct grammar.
Jamesdean wrote: "if your up all night trying to figure out ways through whatever your writing and you phone a friend and they ask 'a way though what, your relationship with that man your with, just dump him, hes no..."Not old enough to be in relationships yet, but yeah. =D
...you got about ten notebooks for Christmas, as well as a pen, and a cool folder thing to put your work in for your birthday ;D
You know you're a writer if you tell your friends that you can't talk because you're about to battle an evil overlord. :)
YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN AUTHOR IF...
You talk to yourself a lot.
You talk to yourself about talking to yourself.
When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else.
You often say stuff like “have you ever noticed that ‘deliver’ could mean like someone’s liver?”
After uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand with awe and say, "Wow, this stuff is great for sugar highs..."
You live off of sugar and caffeine.
People think you're insane.
You'll check your e-mail every day of the week one week, and then disappear off the face of the earth the next.
You're e-mails tend to be pages long and incredibly random.
When replying to an e-mail, you'll never actually address the point of it.
No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper.
The letters on your keyboard are wearing off.
Your friends and family think that you have carpal tunnel syndrome.
People think you have A.D.D.
You think it'd be cool to have A.D.D.
You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense.
You start thinking about making lists like this and start laughing for no "apparent" reason
Your friends stopped looking at you funny for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago.
And FINALLY, the one way to tell if you're a good writer: You failed English 101
You talk to yourself a lot.
You talk to yourself about talking to yourself.
When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else.
You often say stuff like “have you ever noticed that ‘deliver’ could mean like someone’s liver?”
After uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand with awe and say, "Wow, this stuff is great for sugar highs..."
You live off of sugar and caffeine.
People think you're insane.
You'll check your e-mail every day of the week one week, and then disappear off the face of the earth the next.
You're e-mails tend to be pages long and incredibly random.
When replying to an e-mail, you'll never actually address the point of it.
No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper.
The letters on your keyboard are wearing off.
Your friends and family think that you have carpal tunnel syndrome.
People think you have A.D.D.
You think it'd be cool to have A.D.D.
You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense.
You start thinking about making lists like this and start laughing for no "apparent" reason
Your friends stopped looking at you funny for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago.
And FINALLY, the one way to tell if you're a good writer: You failed English 101
Yes. Yes. Yes. No. No. Yes, unfortunately. Sometimes. Yes. No, and it's spelled "your". Yes. Sometimes. YES. No. No. Yes...*blushes*. Yes. Yes. Yes. I failed in first grade, so yeah.
I failed Adv. Composition last term...and I'm still in the class.You know your a writer if...
You're having trouble writing an emotional scene because you've started crying
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Hahaha...You know you're a writer if your mom texts you 'yea' and you don't know whether she meant for it to be prononced 'yeah' or 'yay,' because it could be either.
You know you're a writer if you get really frustrated when people misuse apostrophes and make plural things possessive.
You know you're a writer when you can imagine a whole book, it's beginning and the end but you don't know how to fill in the middle .Ahahaha.
Now, for real, I've wrote a book. And it was published. And I'm 16 years old. I was so happy when I knew they liked it *.*
Here's the link for you to see I'm telling the truth. But it's in Portuguese since I'm Portuguese.
http://www.worldartfriends.com/store/...
Maria, congrats on getting published! You know you're a writer if...
you spend your spare time imagining the epic amazingness of the movie version of a book you haven't even finished yet...or started, for that matter.
You imagine interviews with people who want to know every little detail about your book.
You can't stop yourself from putting 'New York Times Bestselling Author' on your homemade bookcovers.
You practice your autograph for book-signings.
You obnoxiously hoard every pen and spare notebook you come across, yet never use them because you don't want to run out of cool ink or paper. (Or maybe because you don't want to use them on writing that might be crummy)
You are scared to write the story you've been obsessing over because you think you might not be a good enough writer to make it as amazing on paper as it is in your head (that's my excuse for not writing. I'm like "Hey! I'm a writer!" and people go "Oh yeah? Let's see your writing," and I tap my head and say "hehe, it's all up here. So I'm more of an...imagine-er."
You also know you're a writer (or possibly just a major dork) if you want to steal the amazingness of Han Solo and eject him into your characters;) Dude, wouldn't that be awsome?! Like, a Han Solo/Anakin Skywalker pill thingy that you could feed your computer and it would like...star-wars-ify your writing. Haha! Also comes in Harry Potter and Hunger Games varieties!
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You know you're a writer if...
you spend your spare time imagining the epic amazingness of the movie version of a book you haven't even finished yet...or st..."
Like.
Maria wrote: "You know you're a writer when you can imagine a whole book, it's beginning and the end but you don't know how to fill in the middle .Ahahaha.
Now, for real, I've wrote a book. And it was publishe..."
You lucky girl. I'm ashamed of myself now. The biggest step I've given in writing is like finallly trusting my English teacher with my stories. *sigh*
You know you're a writer if you just looked at the word 'niggest' in Jo's comment and got all excited thinking you had found a new word, then a little less excited when you thought it was just a racial slur, and then went AWH when you realized it was just a misspelling of the word 'biggest.'
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Oh, Colby. xD
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(It's kind of awkward.)
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I love finding character outfits! It's so fun. But then I wish I had enough money to buy them and wear them too. xD
You're a writer when you find ideas even in the stupidest rants.That actually happened. The other day I thought, "I'm so mad I'll throw a volleyball so hard it will fall on [character]'s head and make him lose his memory. Wait. What?"
Jo wrote: "You're a writer when you find ideas even in the stupidest rants." That's so true.
That morning we had been talking about head bumps with my Chemistry teacher, tht's why.
When you've got a notebook out in class so you can alternate between writing and whatever your doing in class (really hard when you're taking notes)
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That's why you just ignore the teacher and pretend to take notes. ;)
^Totally did that during NaNo last year. Still only got to 24k. Still better than NaNo this year, which was a whopping...like, 1k.
If I could keep my grades up I'd totally ignore my teachers. And I'm going to do NaNo this year, though I might kill myself trying to do everything. XP
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Then you bring it up in regular conversation and you get questioned where you even could come across that information.