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While getting ready for work this morning, the strange little idiosyncrasies attributed to the writing life started whirring through my head. So, I decided to take a moment to jot them down. See if you agree.
You might be a writer if:
1. When you open your eyes in the morning and look at the pillow beside you, there's a synonym finder, a dictionary, The Chicago Manual of Style and a sleeping laptop instead of your husband. He ended up sleeping in the recliner (again) because there wasn't any room in the bed for him.
2. The acronyms GMC and POV have nothing to do with a car manufacturer or a privately owned vehicle.
3. When your friends see "that" look on your face, they beg you not to write them into one of your books.
4. When you come across a particularly musical name, a character complete with an enthralling personality pops into your head and starts chatting about their life.
5. Music, pictures, a funny ad on T.V. --anything can jolt free a herd of plot bunnies hippity-hopping through your mind.
6. You drive past your exit on the way to your destination because a story is live-streaming in 3D Technicolor through your head.
7. Coffee and chocolate are two MAJOR food groups.
8. Your heart jumps into your throat whenever you receive an email with the word "Query" in the subject line along with the title of your manuscript.
9. Your inbox averages hundreds of emails at any given time because of all the writer's loops you subscribe to--and you've got most of them set to digest.
10. On Twitter you stalk...er...follow every editor, publisher, and agent interested in your genre so you can catch those golden tidbits of industry news.
11. You have to set time limits on Facebook, Twitter, and reading other writer's fascinating blogs or your work in progress suffers from neglect.
And that said, my time is almost up! Do any of these writer's traits fit you?
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