Thread: You might be a writer if. . .

Time for something fun. Lets see how many you guys can come up with. In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy
You might be a writer if. . .

All your text messages are grammatically correct (*raises hand* Guilty!)

While watching a movie with friends, while they are absorbed in the story, you are thinking here's the hero , antagonist, ally, mentor, inciting incident, false victory, All is Lost moment, now comes the big showdown...

You can no longer read a book without wondering how it compares to yours.

(Have I got the right idea?)

When you're listening to a conversation and mentally punctuating every sentence.

On that note...

You listen to a conversation and wonder how it would look on the page.

You've actually wrote down other people conversations because you think it would make good dialogue

You have a big inkstain in your front (or rear) pants pocket, and it's bled all over you upper thigh...

Your space bar has gone really really shiny on the right hand side.

People catch you spacing off with a dumb look on your face, because you were thinking about a story

...you write, on some kind of determinably regular basis, books and stories and such like.

When you see an incorrect word used in your local newspaper, you become furious, and threaten to spill blood unless such an atrocious insult to human intelligence is removed.

You read the obituaries looking for good character names.

If you're on a writing site, trying to come up with clever things that show that you might be a writer, you might be writer.

You look around one day and realise that all of your friends are grammar Nazi's, screenwriters and the mentally insane.

When you look around and despair that all your friends aren't grammar Nazi's, screenwriters or the mentally insane... but you're known as the insane grammar Nazi yourself.