Top Ten Ways You Know You're a Writer
10. Even though you try your hardest to resist, you often correct your own grammar on IM or text messages.
9. You get cranky if you don’t get to write.
8. You return home from a shopping trip to find you’ve bought Printer ink, paper and your own “special” pens, but have forgotten the milk.
7. You wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant line of dialogue and get up to write it down.
6. You can’t write because you’re mad at one of your characters.
5. When you go to a restaurant with a friend, you sometimes miss what your friend is saying… but you hear every word the couple is saying at the table behind you… then rush to the bathroom so you can write it down.
4. Your car is rear-ended and your first thought is what metaphor you would use to describe the sound.
3. After you’ve seen a movie based on a book, you complain about all the ways it didn’t live up to the book. In movies not based on books, you don’t necessarily remember scenes, but you do remember all the great lines.
2. No matter how depressed or out of sorts you are, your mood lifts when you enter a bookstore.
1. Your idea of a perfect evening is curled up on the coach with popcorn (or chocolate or ice cream) and a really thick book.
Got more examples of how we writers reveal ourselves? Let's hear 'em in the comments. Happy writing, all!