You Know You're a Writer When...

[-S-Dancing_Star-S-]

1. Anything and everything inspires you to write (inclusing your dreams)
2. Your characters appear to you in your dreams
3. You start comparing people you know to characters in your stories
4. Your friends are worried that you will put them in your story
5. As soon as you get home from school/work you lock yourself in your room to write
6. The library is your favorite place
7. All of the librarians know your name
8. You cry when you have to kill off your character
9. You have notebooks filled with ideas for stories, characters, and worlds
10. For christmas you want a new desk to keep all of your writing stuff on
11. You start wishing your characters were real
12. You get angry and defensive when someone says something bad about your character
13. You write more than anything else you do
14. When you're at an interesting part in your story you do not stop writing, even if it means you have to skip a meal
15. Whenever you think something, you add "I thought to myself" at the end
16. You begin narrating your life
17. When you dislike a book you go and rewrite whatever part you did not like
18. You can't sleep at night because you are thinking about the mext part of your story
19. Friends cease to ask you what you want to be when you grow up because you are obviously going to be a writer
20. You know how to write in the dark.  

[elrianvaon]

#12 really shouldn't apply to good writers, is the thing.
If you can't take criticism about your story or characters, you need to step back for a while ^^;;  

[Lyvidian]

Raphien

#12 really shouldn't apply to good writers, is the thing.
If you can't take criticism about your story or characters, you need to step back for a while ^^;;

Agreed. I concur.

omg i sound smart  

[All Purpose Muling Device]

Man, none of those apply to me. Guess I'm not a writer. crying  

[Appelsina]

The only ones that apply to me are numbers...:
1
2
9  

[Lyvidian]

All Purpose Muling Device

Man, none of those apply to me. Guess I'm not a writer. crying

I'm sure you can add on to the list.  

[All Purpose Muling Device]

Lyvidian

All Purpose Muling Device

Man, none of those apply to me. Guess I'm not a writer. crying

I'm sure you can add on to the list.

Well, that would just be cheating. Then I could say something like "you know you're a writer when you drink copious amounts of Mountain Dew" just because it's a trait of mine.

No, no. We must keep this list pure of nonwriter taint.

And to cover, just in case: I'm totally kidding and should in no way be taken seriously at all  

[Appelsina]

You know you're a writer when you don't let anyone borrow your loose leaf paper in school.
What if you have a brilliant idea and you need to write it down, but you don't have any more paper?
But, alas, you gave that one sheet of paper to a classmate.  

[Andirigible]

You know you're a writer when you only carry pens because pencils don't write on skin, and that's all you've got left cause your binders are full of maps, outlines, ideas, and straight-up chapters of writing.

And when someone has to call your name multiple times because you've zoned and are thinking intensely about your plot (and are secretly super pissed that they interrupted your intense thinking session).

When you keep paper and a pen on the bathroom counter because you for sure get all your best ideas in the freaking shower.

When you mentally b-slap your characters every night so you can sleep without them telling you all the latest greatest ideas.

When everyone around you knows to stay the hell out of your way from October 15th to December 5th cause they know you'll be obsessed with outlines and character development and writing like a madman.  

[Appelsina]

Andi Aquarius

And when someone has to call your name multiple times because you've zoned and are thinking intensely about your plot (and are secretly super pissed that they interrupted your intense thinking session).

I do this all the time. gonk  

[Shadyness]

I think a lot of these applied to me more when I was still in middle/high school. I haven't had time like that to devote to writing in years gonk  

[Demona McRae]

1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 12 (but not as much anymore, I'm proud to say. Actually, almost never anymore. But I acknowledge that I have had this issue.), 13, 14, 19, and 20.

That's still only 50%. I fail.