You know you’re a writer if...

- your idea of a clean desk means you can see over the top of the piles.

- you know exactly where everything is in those piles.

- you can spend hours leafing through the pages of a dictionary.

- you can write an eight-page email and feel like you’ve only written a paragraph.

- you know everything happens for a reason…even if you have to make one up.

- you can entertain yourself all afternoon creating character descriptions for people whom you observe in an airport, on a bus, at the mall, etc..

- you often play a mental game called “What If?” and concoct wild endings for situations.

- you second guess every decision you make.

- you have purses, boxes, envelopes and/or drawers stuffed with notes on article/book/essay/story ideas.

- you mentally re-write dialog/story lines while watching bad movies/television shows.

- you have a hard time finding anybody who will play Scrabble with you.

- you feel like a fraud; especially when the words seem to flow like water.

- you can break into a cold sweat at the sight of an empty page.

- things don’t make sense until you have written about them.

- friends and family members sometimes find your thoughts and ideas peculiar.

- There are days when you’d rather scrape that ucky brown stuff from around the base of the toilet with a toothbrush than write.

- you wake up in the middle of the night and write down an article or story idea/plot line/snappy remark that came to you in your sleep.

- you are perfectly happy being alone for hours/days/weeks on end.

- sometimes you would do anything so you don’t have to be alone…and write.

- you read as much to study writing style as you do to gather information.

- without provocation strangers on a bus, train or airplane tell you intimate details of their lives.

- you must write.

- you can’t imagine a life without writing.

You know you're a Professional Writer if...

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