I know it's been ages since I've posted here. Since I'm too sleep deprived to think of anything intelligent to say, let's play this game instead. I think it was Josie Kilpack who said:
"... you know what a rejection letter sounds like going down the toilet"
"... you know what a rejection letter sounds like going down the garbage disposal"
Ones I thought of:
"...you've rewritten every Oscar winning movie ten times (even though you've only written the first third of your own novel)"
"...you still talk to the imaginary friend you've had since you were six"
"...you know exactly which pockets in your cargo pants can hold a trade paperback, which can hold a mass market paperback, and which can hold a netbook"
I'm sure you all can do better!
You may be a writer if you walk into a bookstore, pick up a book, and think, "Hey, I know who this author's agent is. In fact, I've queried this author's agent."
ReplyDeleteYou may be an author if the letters E, D, N, M, F, C, T, S, J, and H are worn off your keyboard.
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if for Mother's Day your five-year-old draws you a picture of a stick-figure sitting at a computer.
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if you panic that you have nothing to write with, and settle for the stub of crayon at the bottom of your purse and a receipt from Taco Bell.
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if you've instructed your spouse to save the kids in the event of a fire because you have to save your computer.
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if your children ask you if your talking to them or someone from your book.
You may be a writer if you're standing at the checkout line of a grocery story, trying to describe the grocery clerk's odd expression in your mind.
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if you own more books on how to write than you've written.
You may be a writer if you've searched a thesaurus for a synonym of chartreuse.
lol, too funny, guys! I don't dare admit how many of those apply to me...
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if on any given day you've talked to more people in your mind than you have "real people."
ReplyDeleteYou may be a writer if you get out of the shower and you can't remember if you washed your hair or not because you spent the whole time knocking out your next section of dialog in your head.
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