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Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "You know you're a writer when you can analyze even things like children's cartoons at length, ranting about character development and symbolism and whatnot and your friends/family are all like, "....."Yes! This happens all the time.
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "You know you're a writer when you can analyze even things like children's cartoons at length, ranting about character development and symbolism and whatnot and your friends/family are all like, "....."
Yes. Yes yes yes.
Yes. Yes yes yes.
I shall revive this. Even though it's only been 9 days. Ahem.The other day I was writing a scene where my two characters, Lu and Alice, are emailing each other. Then I looked down and my iPod had a new email. So then I thought, "Oh hey! I bet it's Lu!" And then I was like, "Waaaaaaiiiit. Lu's not real."
That is how you know you're a writer.
You know your a writer if..Someone asks you what your doing. And your like "Writing." And they ask "Why? A test?" "No. I'm writing a story." "For what?" "For fun?" "How many pages?" *Lifts up a huge booklet* "Uh."
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Accurate.Well sort of. I have length issues.
You know you're a writer if you want to throat-kick anybody who watches you write.
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You know you're a writer if you don't like people reading your work but really like them reading it at the same time.You know they sell purple typewriter ribbon on amazon. Sadly my portable typewriter only has black. It used to have red.
You know you're a writer with a typewriter if you get ribbons for your birthday.
My trouble with lenght is, I can't if I'm not simply inspired. I can, but it's not quality.
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "Gah, yes. Like, if I'm writing something and someone sits next to me on the couch, I totally freak out and try to turn away so they can't see the screen... haha."
My mom was cleaning the fish tank behind me while I was writing and she stopped and started reading my screen. The book I'm working on is about two gay teenage girls, and there's some swearing, so I was like, "NO! DON'T READ IT!" She looked at me like I was crazy ;)
Kay wrote: "My mom was cleaning the fish tank behind me while I was writing and she stopped and started reading my screen. The book I'm working on is about two gay teenage girls, and there's some swearing, so ..."I write male/male erotica--I am the same way with my family every time I hear them coming I minimize the screen. Lol I can't write in the day time because of it. I am paranoid about them reading over my shoulder.
I have absolutely no expertise with either genre, mostly because of my disdain for erotica, but in any way I'd be ashamed if anyone I knew read my "work".
Kay wrote: "My mom was cleaning the fish tank behind me while I was writing and she stopped and started reading my screen. The book I'm working on is about two gay teenage girls, and there's some swearing, so ..."Holly (FMB Virtual Blog Tours) wrote: "Kay wrote: "My mom was cleaning the fish tank behind me while I was writing and she stopped and started reading my screen. The book I'm working on is about two gay teenage girls, and there's some s..."
I act like that no matter what. But it's gotten worse because of how... dark my writing's gotten.
I'm writing a novella about a serial killer. One day I forgot to print out an assignment so I asked my mom to print it out for me and bring it to school. I realized she had to go on my laptop and almost had a panic attack thinking that she would accidentally click on that instead of my assignment.
Then there was the time my friends dared me to write slash fan fiction so as I was writing about a passionate make-out session with clothes being thrown everywhere, my mom walked into my room. I almost died as my screen froze up.
The latest scare was when I was writing about this girl who killed her dad. He was cussing her out before she killed him. I went out into the living room to talk to my mom when she remembered she had to grab some bug stuff that was in the closet in my room. I had no problem until I remembered my story was up with the cussing and murder on the page that was shown and that my computer was right in front of my closet. I ended up jumping into my room and trying to block my computer screen.
I've had some really close calls.
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Ouch...no wonder you're such a ninja :DI don't really have any dirty/violent scenes since I'm pretty squeamish about that stuff, but Ikeep my writing hidden in a deep, secret folder. I have entries from my journal on my laptop too, and they're disguised as schoolwork.
You know you're a writer if... you relax when writing, have a passion for it, never wants to stop writing, and will write till the end of time.
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You know they sell purple typewriter ribbon on amazon. Sadly my portable typew..."
THEY HAVE PURPLE TYPEWRITER RIBBON? I DID NOT KNOW THIS WAS A THING. THIS NEEDS TO BE A THING THAT I OWN.
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Ha ha, I think the only way you can read my writing is if you found me on one of the seven websites I have my writing posted on.
You know you're a writer when you're in a writing mood and you have a plot line set out and everything but you get distracted by everything else and never write it down.
You know when you're a writer when your imagination clicks and you start getting ideas.
Lav [until your heart stops beating so fast] wrote: "Luna wrote: "You know you're a writer if you don't like people reading your work but really like them reading it at the same time.You know they sell purple typewriter ribbon on amazon. Sadly my p..."
I WANT A TYPEWRITER
How convenient that my birthday is in less than two months...
But my parents would think I was crazy.
Although among my wishlist are a giant tigger stuffed toy and a nyancat t-shirt...soo...
You know you're a writer when you listen to songs and correct grammar.
My mom definitely walked in the room when I was writing a short story. It was one of them I've talked about where I come up with the title first, then the story, and the title was "Don't Panic, Your Mother is Just Sleeping with Another Woman" and the words 'moaning' and 'orgasm' were in the opening sentence, I believe. And. My. Screen. Froze. Up.
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When I say most of my friends, I mean "people on Goodreads." xD
Colby wrote: "My mom definitely walked in the room when I was writing a short story. It was one of them I've talked about where I come up with the title first, then the story, and the title was "Don't Panic, You..."XD Oh, Colby.
Lav [until your heart stops beating so fast] wrote: "Emily [But I am, most of all I am] wrote: "Ha ha, I think the only way you can read my writing is if you found me on one of the seven websites I have my writing posted on."
When I say most of my f..."
Dittoooooooooooooooooooooo
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Ha ha, I would never have that problem.I think I've only finished one chapter story ever.
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NO I WON'TI NEVER WILL
MY ATTENTION SPAN AND DEDICATION FLY OUT THE WINDOW AFTER LIKE TWENTY PAGES
Emily [But I am, most of all I am] wrote: "MY ATTENTION SPAN AND DEDICATION FLY OUT THE WINDOW AFTER LIKE TWENTY PAGES"
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You know you're a writer when you accidentally call people by the names of your characters.This has happened to me twice. Once when the names were really close in spelling and pronounciation, and once when this person reminded me so much of my character.
Or does my character remind me of them...?
You know you're a writer when you're daydreaming about your airship pirate character getting into a big battle instead of listening to your college professor.
You know you're a writer if...... a 9 pack of pretty writing pens makes you extremely happy.
... this: "What's up?" "Oh, just torturing some imaginary people." can be a normal conversation between you and your friends.
... while some people could tell you 50 ways to apply eyeshadow, you can tell people 500 very creative ways to kill people.
Sydeli wrote: "You know you're a writer if...... a 9 pack of pretty writing pens makes you extremely happy.
... this: "What's up?" "Oh, just torturing some imaginary people." can be a normal conversation betwe..."
I do all of these! Pretty pens are the best :)
Although with the second one sometimes me and my friend write poems about the demise of our other friends instead of characters... For some reason they don't like the poems...
Sydeli wrote: "Haha, I couldn't imagine why :)"Me neither... We even added pictures!
You know that you are a writer if you go to Comic Con dressed as your original character from your own story.
You know you're a writer if you can't watch a movie or read a book without imagining one or more of your characters in it.
You know you're a writer if you can't sleep some nights because you're busy thinking about what you should write next in your book...and then when you wake up, you can't for the life of you remember what was exciting you so much.
Colby wrote: "You know you're a writer if you can't sleep some nights because you're busy thinking about what you should write next in your book...and then when you wake up, you can't for the life of you remembe..."GPOY
You know that you're a writer if you're writing about airship pirates in a Pysichs class.
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So true.