You Know You're a Writer When:
* You feel betrayed, let down, or in need of vengence when you think of better plot twists or endings than the author.
* When the words 'Passive Voice' and 'Sentence Fragment' make you scream and swear at your computer.
* If you have bought a journal, been inspired to write a book by the journal, but never actually put anything in the journal because you were too afraid of ruining the beauty and possibility of all those empty pages
* When you start laughing for no reason and poeple ask you what you were thinking about and all you can say is you 'read' it somewhere
* You annoy people watching a movie with you by saying out loud what you think will happen next.
* And more often than not are right...
* And so end up having the other person annoyed at you for "spoiling it" for them.
* You refer to your charachters as if they're real people.
* If you check out people on the bus/train, for random characteristics you can give your characters. Also to build your characters' wardrobes.
* You obsessively sit real close to the TV screen whilst the credits role "looking for cool names for my characters."
* You're always on the lookout for baby name books.
* And all the members in your family are, too...
* When you constantly speak in metaphors.
* And then have a really hard time of it trying to explain it's complexed meaning when the other person's face goes blank.
* You pronounce words wrong in verbal conversation because that's how you thought it was pronounced when you read it.
* You come out with great sounding long words when writing (and even know how to spell them perfectly), but then can't for the life of you remember what they mean. You just *know* it's the perfect word.
* You make references to obscure information, and it takes you a minute to realize it isn't common knowledge.
* You think of something you want to tell someone, and then you think what you reckon they'll say back, and then you end up having this extensive two-sided conversation with yourself, complete with fully described actions and facial expressions.
* You get upset with your characters because they go and do something that totally ruins the whole play-out of the plot.
* You read a book, and a simple phrase can make you say, "Oooh! Story title!"
* When you find yourself watching movies and analyzing how the movie-makers used tension and raised the stakes to make it more exciting. And then you start wondering how you could apply this to your novel.
* You can't talk or do speeches in public, but you could write it over the internet and feel just fine.
* You find yourself naming your pets after your own characters, or give them hard-to-pronounce foreign names that "have great meanings!"
* You would prefer to sit in the middle of the mall and be entertained by the unsuspecting passing multitude then go see a movie.
* And think of detailed hobbies, hates, loves and family predicaments for certain individuals who happen by.
* You save MSN convos containing halarious recounts by your friends for further refference.
* And then wonder if you really should have admited to that in public.
* You read through 6 forum pages of people sharing their YKYWW , related to 95% of them and then composed a list of your own...
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