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I think we can all relate to this list.

May 20 2007 04:31 pm   #1Caro Mio

 You Know You're a Writer If...

Your fingers are always cramped from either holding a pen or curling them over a keyboard.

You have more "name the baby" books now than you did when you were actually naming your own babies.

You can't pass by an office supply store without swooning.

You dream up secret lives for every grocery clerk, mailman and car mechanic you meet.

You sometimes miss hearing what people say because you're too busy imagining what your characters are saying.

You know more color words than your local paint dealer does.

Your idea of a great gift is the latest dictionary on the market.

You can be found stumbling around at three in the morning looking for a pen to jot down an idea that woke you up, knowing that if you wait until morning, it will have vanished with the moon and stars.

You have a habit of guessing (correctly) the next scene in a movie, sometimes out loud, earning you the ire of your family.

Your worst vices are collecting research books, daydreaming and failing to clean the house while your characters are "talking" to you.

One of your favorite "guilty" haunts is the office supply store.

Every time you go on a vacation to a new location, you not only take pictures, you take notes.

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May 20 2007 06:17 pm   #2cereza

You have a habit of guessing (correctly) the next scene in a movie, sometimes out loud, earning you the ire of your family.

Thank God it's not just me. Truth be told, I'm the one who's the angriest when something like that happens, 'cos hey, it's me who ends up with being not surprised at all!

Great list, really. Tough personally I can't refer to all your points, I still think it shows how writing affects your life.

"People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. (...) They find it easier to live."
~ Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
May 20 2007 07:55 pm   #3Guest

I just gakked it from another place. Didn't write it.

My boyfriend is terrible about guessing everything in movies. It gets really annoying, cuz he doesn't just let the movie carry him through the experience.

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May 20 2007 09:49 pm   #4Scarlet Ibis

 You have a habit of guessing (correctly) the next scene in a movie, sometimes out loud, earning you the ire of your family.

That one made me laugh out loud- sometimes, its just so obvious, I can't help it.  I feel like I may have been the only person to see the symbolism all throughout "The House of Wax" upon the first time seeing it.  I gave that crappy movie credit for trying.

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May 20 2007 11:00 pm   #5Guest

 You know more color words than your local paint dealer does.

Hee I went to paint store for Blue paint and asked for paint the same color as Spikes eyes...How sad am I?

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May 21 2007 03:37 am   #6LadyYashka

Hee-hee...I've done the stumbling around at 3am thing. Well with me it was stumbling around at 8am (after staying up all night), and sitting at my computer typing because my characters woke me up.  Damn dragons.  :P

I've also missed conversations in car rides because I've been daydreaming. Also, it's not so much the office supply store that has me swooning, it's more along the lines of the computer store (I need a new computer), and the book store. :D

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman
May 21 2007 04:52 pm   #7Blood Faerie

I actually have naming SITES bookmarked, instead of books... but that still counts, yeah? lmao ... and not just for writing but my RPG characters too ^.^

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May 25 2007 12:46 am   #8Guest
I have loved the stars too fondly to fear the night - Sarah WilliamsI have about thirty baby name books and I don't even have kids. ~Ghost Writer sorry, too lazy to log in :P
Jun 03 2007 10:47 pm   #9spikes_wish

 You have a habit of guessing (correctly) the next scene in a movie, sometimes out loud, earning you the ire of your family.

I too can totally relate to this. It drives my friends nuts, and constant shouts of "shut up sarah-jane"can be heard throughout the whole house.

Jun 05 2007 12:42 am   #10smlcspike

That was great, baby books I don't need them I work for a company that supports all of Canada calling in everyday when I need names for fics I start writting down the uniqe ones.