You know you're a writer if...

You know the research librarian’s office, cell, and home phone numbers but can’t remember your own.

•Some of the letters on your keyboard are completely worn off. (or the keys are constantly falling off)

•You would rather write than go out somewhere and do something.

•Your/you’re and their/there/they’re errors send you into an apoplectic fit.

•You get cranky if you don’t get to write.

•You’ve ever said, “The voices are getting louder; I must go write.”

•When talking with others, you mentally edit their dialogue and compose tags and beats.

•You’ve heard/seen something and thought, "I need to write that down."

•You’ve ever written a scene, outline, synopsis, or character sketch on a restaurant napkin . . . and it wasn’t a paper napkin.

•You have a momentary reality lapse and mention your characters’ situation as a prayer request in Sunday school.

•A blank wall becomes the screen where the scene you’re writing takes place right in front of your eyes.

•The easiest way for you to deal with conflict is to go home and write it into your story.

•You purposely eavesdrop when out in public.

•At parties, your method of making conversation is to discover people in the room with interesting occupations (preferably your hero’s or heroine’s) so you can conduct research.

•You listen to the writer’s commentary on every DVD so that you can analyze his/her writing process.

•You drive three hours to a city where you don’t know anyone, spend another three hours driving around the city, then drive three hours home and decide NOT to set your story there.

• You want to interview your neighbor; even though he is supposedly normal.

• Your ideal start of a day is- A hot bath, a cup of coffee and your pen and paper.

• You prefer a Writers magazine over any other type.

• People at the Post Office know you by name.

•You prefer your Black box (Computer) over your Family's Black box (TV).

• You carry a pen and paper with you at all times.

•Your mind just won’t quit thinking about things you can write about next.

•You would rather be home writing, than at a friends party.

•Your spouse/parents/siblings thinks you love your computer more than you do him (or her).

• Your mom says, “Now I’m ironing the placket” and you’re standing beside her thinking, Placket. Good word.

• You're driving along on a stormy night and the trees are all windy and you think, "She swerved to avoid the deer, but its hooves shattered the windshield into a cobweb of cracks, then the car tumbled down the cliff; even though it rolled several times, she was alive when the car rested at the bottom of the canyon."

•You know you are a writer when you groan every time you hear or read the word "synopsis"

•You have a permanent bump/callous on the side of your middle finger from using a pen or pencil.

•You know you are a writer when you are woken up at 3am hit by inspiration for a new story and forget it all by the time you turn your computer on.