You know you're a writer when...

Here's a list I made up for fun -- and from experience. Feel free to add some of yours!


You Know You're a Writer When...

• You consider ink-stained fingers or a pencil in your hair badges of honour.
• You drink coffee purely for the caffeine content.
• You have at least seven large notebooks laying around with important tid-bits scribbled on their pages. You have yet to fill one completely.
• You have several different movie soundtracks on your iPod to inspire you.
• People look at you weird when you tell the voices in your head to be quiet "for one second!"
• You have a a bad experience and you try to figure out how to apply it to one of your characters.
• You bounce up and down squealing when you come across a picture on the Internet that matches one of your characters. 
• You would rather be chased by a dragon through a tar pit than be subject to yet another writer's block.
• You willingly share your latest chapter with a perfect stranger, but mysteriously become tight-lipped when family asks what your story's about.
• You do everything in you power to look like your main character - from cutting hair to making articles of clothing and props - hoping it will lend you a better scope of your character.
• You try to draw things from your story but tear your hair out when you see how miserably you've failed at capturing your imagination.
• When it comes to a new idea, resistance is futile.