1. Certain office supplies have the power to bring you to tears. Of joy.
2. You about had an apoplectic fit while viewing Stranger Than Fiction.
3. You've found yourself editing the Bible for run-on sentences.
4. You discuss characters in your book to the point that the person you're conversing with thinks they're real.
5. You see unending possibilities in a blank sheet of paper.
6. You see unending failure in a blank Word document.
7. You own more books than anything else.
8. Though you haven't read all of them.
9. However, none of them are going anywhere. You are a haven for the printed page.
10. The librarians at your library have dirt on you.
11. Good dialog makes you swoon.
12. You collect names the way other people collect recipes.
13. No one in your household has clean socks.
14. You re-plot popular fiction in your head so that it actually, you know, works.
15. You re-plot films and TV shows verbally.
16. Your spouse may not always appreciate this input.
17. You've spent serious time trying to figure out if Irish creeks are frozen in February, or if Amish women wear normal bras.
18. There's a list of words you love - and hate.
19. A lot of good reviews make you happy.
20. One bad review makes you, very, very, very, very sad.
21. Forget review. One negative comment in the middle of a good review, and it's depths of despair, all over again.
23. Your work space used to be clean.
24. You say things like, "That was such a good set-up/pay-off" during a movie.
25. You enjoy crosswords.
26. You know a little about a wide variety of subjects from past book research.
27. You keep track of who knows what in your circle of friends - for future book research.
28. Carpal tunnel is referred to in hushed tones.
29. You fulfill over stereotype concerning writers and chocolate.
30. Like Emma Thompson's character in Stranger Than Fiction, you know that while storyboarding and synopses can be your friends, truly good ideas - like anything worth writing - come inexplicably and without method.
Wow. Apparently I'm a fiction writer. Just haven't actually written much at this point... :)
ReplyDeleteIt happens. I hear it's catching :-)
ReplyDeleteYou need to add a bullet regarding the fact that, although you may be 'giving up' or 'taking a break' or 'too busy', you will always return to writing, like the sad, sad addict that you are.
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