You know you are a writer when...

[pmmg]

Fill in the blank.

You know you are a writer when _______.

(One entry per post please.)

 

[pmmg]

You know you are a writer when you are always cursing that Tolkien got to it first.

 

[Ban]

You know you are a writer when you have a nuanced opinion on whether the giving or receiving of critique has greater educational value.

 

[skip.knox]

You know you're a writer when you fail to stop writing.

 

[ThinkerX]

you know you are a writer when you decide to chronicle the activities of your cat who vanished for fourteen hours and returned with battle damage.

 

[Prince of Spires]

You know you're a writer when you plot your physical injury onto the hero's journey.

 

[Mad Swede]

You know you are a writer when you see some stranger on the train reading one of your books.

 

[pmmg]

....You've spent more than 8 hours researching non-fatal ways to stab people.

 

[Finchbearer]

Make sure you put into the search engine ‘for fiction writing’…

You know you’re a writer when you lose track of time thinking about plot holes

…and how to fix them

 

[pmmg]

I could have said, when you make the FBI watch list for your google searches

You know you are a writer when... you have typed out names like Milnidrifel and Galtorix more than Tom and Dave.

 

[Finchbearer]

Now that would be; you know you’re a fantasy writer when you have typed out names like Milnidrifel and Galtorix more than Tom and Dave.

That would be a fun thread too

 

[pmmg]

You know you're a writer when you think the difference between Grey and Gray is an important one.

 

[Finchbearer]

You know you’re a fantasy writer when your Google search is full of obscure medieval terminology and mythical creatures

 

[pmmg]

You know you are a fantasy writer when you've come up with your fifteenth way of saying Dark-sight, without saying they can just see in the dark.

 

[Finchbearer]

You know you’re a fantasy writer when you’ve come up with every way of telling time without just saying 3 o’clock

 

[pmmg]

You know you’re a fantasy writer when you’ve come up with every way of telling time without just saying 3 o’clock

Good lord...the hoops I have jumped through to show the time without referencing a clock.

 

[pmmg]

You know you are a fantasy writer when you have done more work on a magic system, than any other system that might appear in the actual real world.

 

[Ban]

You know you're a writer when the word "plotter" makes you thinks of pants instead of schemes.

 

[Jackarandajam]

You know you're a writer when you use semicolons in text messages.

 

[pmmg]

You know you are a fantasy writer when you have a name in your story you know no one can pronounce, but you keep using it anyway.