Top Ten Reasons You Know You Are A Writer
10 – You overhear a conversation about a plot at the cemetery and your mind automatically thinks horror story.
9 – Your stories at the dinner table are always character driven.
8 – The question “What have you published?” can be as annoying as your third grade teacher running her fingernails across the chalkboard.
7 – You complain because the conversations at a dinner party sound nothing like dialogue.
6 – You assume exhibitionists are great writers since they prefer to show instead of tell.
5 – The last time you received this many rejections was at your senior prom.
4 – Every time you watch a good movie or finish a great book your first words are, “I wish I wrote that.”
3 – You miss your bus stop because you were too busy writing an imaginary description of the eccentric lady sitting across from you.
2 – You ask the waiter at your favorite restaurant why there is no page numbering on their menu.
1 – Naming a secondary character in your manuscript provides a greater challenge than naming your unborn child.
Hysterical. You have to be a writer to appreciate this.
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Happy you enjoyed it. There will be more Top Tens coming.
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really funny
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Thanks. There will be more coming,
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Lmao, especially about #4, because, yes, I have done that! I am currently envying Southern Women Writers who score and score big with their very first books: Margaret Mitchell, Sue Monk Kidd, Harper Lee, etc. 😀
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I am happy I made you laugh. I am so bad I have said that about a single line of dialogue. I wish my character said that.
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Oh, I know, I have done that too! That’s why I started writing down all of these great lines I’d find in books or movies, or heck, even graffiti on a bathroom wall one time and that was the start of my commonplace books! Lol, I never really thought of it this way but I think my commonplace books are really just a compilation of envy from cover to cover 😉
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Graffiti on the bathroom walls. LOL You should publish a book Philosophy From Bathroom Walls
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It wouldn’t be even a pamphlet lol! So far I have only found the one back in the early 1980’s but it was a good one! This was during the Reagan Reign of Terror when we had high inflation: “Inflation defies the law of gravity.” I read that while doing my bizness, and maybe it hit my funny bone harder at the time because I was so drunk, but I wrote it done in my commonplace book the next day. And I still like it!
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LOL You are too much. It was a good one!
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Reblogged this on KCJones.
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I am flattered. Thank you so much. Spreading my craziness around the world???
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You tell your doctor that the article about him, that is framed on the wall contains grammatical errors. 😀 true story! 😀
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Notice the delay in this response? You have me searching high and low for grammatical errors.Oh, the woes of being an unpublished writer. LOL Can’t stop laughing.
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Bahahaha.. did not notice, I am gulping down my lunch 😀
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Bon appetit
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🙂 it was short lived, but good nevertheless 😀
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Great.
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😀
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oh.. and writing a haiku 🙂
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Funny you should mention that. I was recently asked if I haiku.
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mmmmmm let me guess, you said you only haifive 😀
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Lol. Do you do stand up?
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hahah I have a bad back … so I try to sit down 😀
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You talking to the king of bad backs. Still think you’re hilarious. Just had my cervical spine fused in June. So,I got you there. (I don’t know all that emo stuff so sticking out my tongue)
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bahahaha!! 🙂 you can ask my students, they don’t usually think I am funny, but “weird” 😀
I always take it as a compliment.
And about yoru back, your back seems pretty fine from the picture you have on your blog 😀
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Your students are probably too young to appreciate your humor. You are ahead of your time. As for the pic…a chimp has to relax. Doesn’t he?
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hehehe 🙂 never met one
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lol
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😀
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Haha XD this was great!
Bus stop,that’s the place where I unintentionally wrote my first poem,long time ago.
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Interesting. Thanks for stopping by.
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ROFL! Absolutely perfect art. Thank you for the smile!
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LOL Happy you enjoyed. Thanks for reading my craziness.
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Hi – had to laugh out loud when reading this. All of these ideas actually prove that the one in question is not only a writer but also a very committed one, especially if wishing to have numbering on menu pages in a restaurant, hahaaa.
– Ruta
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Hahaha. I forgot about that one. That is one dedicated (and maybe sick) writer. We are a crazy breed, aren’t we? Thanks for stopping by to read. Happy you enjoyed it.
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Oh, the agonizing over naming characters! I can relate to that one for sure! Also I would add, you know you’re a writer if your google search history has put you on a government watch list!
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Oh, man that is amazing. I worry about the searches I have done. That is so funny and real.
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i’m not really a legit writer but this —– 4 – Every time you watch a good movie or finish a great book your first words are, “I wish I wrote that.” —— is sooooo me
it’s fun to hang around here 🙂
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I have uttered those words countless times. Thanks for saying its fun. Appreciate your visit. I will visit you a little later today.
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