You may be a writer if...

you have copies of Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus in every room of your home and in each vehicle you own.

By the way, these are also funny (to me): http://com1.runboard.com/bthescribesmessageboard.fjokejunction.t14 A few remind me of our own fishy character Frank.

when selecting a potential mate, you don't choose based on looks, sense of humor, or kindness, but on who says the most quotable dialogue for your next story.

... you fill your fountain-pen by plugging it into a vein.

Your favorite soup is alphabet soup.

You write your checks in prose...

Everything you do has an epilogue...

hmmm lets see what I can come up with..

You may be a writer if....your procrastinating on a writer's forum instead of actually writing.

Then I am DEFINITELY a writer!

You may be a writer

if everything that happens to you, or to anyone you talk with, or to anybody you hear or read or think or dream about, isn't an experience - it's material.

You may be a writer if....

...you own over a dozen dictionaries and consider them "family heirlooms."

*cough*

you interrupt conversations and activities with loved ones (and even strangers) so you can 'write that down.' This includes certain intimate *ahem* moments as well.

Was that too much information?

You bring a cell phone w/ earpiece with you... just in case you have to engage in some heated conversation with your "characters." So that people will think you're on the phone, and not just crazy....

..your handbag is the size of a small country and contains notebooks, pieces of paper with scribbled story ideas and useful websites on, newspaper and magazine articles stolen from friends and family (and the occasional doctor's waiting room...sorry!), and even small reference books, but there's no room for the essentials like a purse and comb.

L x
(thinking she'd better have a handbag clear-out this weekend)

The coffeeshop staff knows you by name: Here comes Ray, the guy who orders a small cup of tea and sits at the largest table for hours... yup, that's him.

...you mutter, "What if," and , "Wouldn't it be better if..." in your sleep.

Your mind goes crazy with an idea for a book as soon as you lay your head down to go to sleep each and every night of the week.


Anne

You think about killing people all the time (and the best way to kill them).

you may be a writer if....

...you can't leave work at the end of the day until you've "tied up all the loose ends."

...you think you should get a royalty from the bank every time you write a check.

1.You have a complete library in your bathroom.


2.Every account of what happened during your day starts with the words, "The story I'm about to tell you..." and ends with "and they lived happily ever after."

3.You have more books than money.

I wish I had something witty to add to this thread, but I don't.


Brady H.

Whenever you're not writing and not doing something you "have" to do, you keep thinking, "I really should be writing."

You fall asleep at your computer or writing desk.

You bring a cell phone w/ earpiece with you... just in case you have to engage in some heated conversation with your "characters." So that people will think you're on the phone, and not just crazy....

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I really like that idea!