YOU KNOW YOU’RE A WRITER WHEN:
-You constantly point out (either mentally or out loud) all the grammar and/or spelling mistakes your Honors English teacher makes.
-Your idea of a fun Friday afternoon is sitting alone in your room writing a story or working on a plot.
-You love paper.
-You bring paper and a pencil/pen everywhere you go.
-You have created more characters than you have real life friends.
- You know the meanings of the words "oc," "ooc," "au," "lemon," "crackfic," "crossover," "oneshot," and "Mary Sue/Gary Stu".
- You have used (or at least understand) the phrase: "I can never get my characters to do what I say! They are so stubborn!"
-Someone tells you a sad story about something that happened to them, and you automatically start thinking about how you could turn that into a plot.
-While watching an action-packed, thrilling movie with a complex storyline, you are sitting there with a pencil and paper writing random storyline.
-You want to throw something at someone if they use “there,” “their,” and/or “they’re” incorrectly.
-You have ever apologized aloud to a character after doing something horrible to them.
-You write letters to your friends and hand it to them at the end of the day, rather than just speaking to them.
-You start writing a letter with the intention of it being brief and to-the-point, and it ends up being over ten pages long.
-You have NEVER started writing a letter and expected it to be short.
-You can think up an entire story with plot, characters, and setting based on just one small event/object/sentence you just happened to see/hear.
-You stress out and/or worry about your characters’ situations and problems more than your own.
-You have stayed up all night working on a story, and then not even realize you had stayed up all night until 7 am.
-You are disappointed about your happy childhood. (Your characters have much more interesting ones)
-You are constantly writing down random thoughts.
-You actually know a synonym for the word “thesaurus.”
-For your birthday, you ask for paper, a notebook, and writing instruments.
-Some of the most riveting conversations you’ve had were with an imaginary character.
-You’ve written a list like this.
-You laughed at the overly simple plotline in Twilight.
-You have insisted to someone at least once, at some time in your life, that your characters are real.
-If someone broke into your house, stole your wallet (containing all your credit cards), took all the money out of your piggy bank ($800), stole your diamond necklace (worth about $1,000), smashed your television (about $900), and stole your laptop ($548), you would be more distressed about your laptop than anything else, because it had all of your stories on it.
-A friend reads an emotional scene in one of your stories, and when they tell you that they are crying because of it, you said, “That’s good.”
-You know what the word “jentacular” means and can use it in a sentence.
-When reading math word problems, you wonder about the characters and their motives. WHY, exactly, does Joey care if Sally sells 6 tickets? Why should I “assume” that everyone in the school went on the field trip and used the buses? What if some students missed the buses, or are absent? Then surely there would be enough seats left over. Or if not, why not just sit on somebody’s lap? Why do they need the exact amount?
-When someone is talking about some mathematical equation, and they say, “This type of shape is ALWAYS obtuse,” you automatically think, “There MUST be exceptions!” And then try to figure one out.
-You know what it’s like to fall in love with a character.
-You understand everything on this list.
