You know you're a Lit author when...

[TheRedChamber]

...when you hear the song 'I'm not a girl, not yet a woman' on the radio and your first instinct is to wonder if Laurel would let that slide...

 

[Duleigh]

... when you're 5,000 words into your new story and you realize that you had better settle down and determine a subject for the story.

 

[dmallord]

You know you are a writer – When inspiration hits you, you actually get out of bed to write those thoughts out before you forget them.

You know you are a writer – If you say to yourself in that wakeful state as all those neurons are ablaze in the forefront of your writer's mind, "I can write for another hour, get this done, and still go to work. I'll be fine."

You know you are a writer – When one-bomber scores are met with a shrug, you continue to peck away at the keyboard without a hint of regret over their 'problems with you.'

You know you are a writer – If you take the time to look up why your editor changed the spelling of your use of 'blond' to 'blonde' and you smile at learning something new.

 

[TimDEnchanter]

You get that big royalty check in the mail.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Dream a Little Dream of Money in the Mail

Sweet dreams 'til sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams, whatever they be
Dream a little dream of moola in the mail
Dream a little dream of royalty pay in the mail
Dream a little dream of much mo money

You get that big royalty check in the mail.

 

[Duleigh]

--- when you publically announce that you "don't do Halloween," then you spend the next few weeks crafting a Halloween contest story based on a character that "doesn't do Halloween."

 

[friendlyoldman]

....you realize you're life is too short to make everything you wrote come true.

 

[luv2custrip]

When you can’t simply enjoy a sex fantasy that pops into your head without— hey; this would make a great story!

 

[lovecraft68]

Exactly, incels gotta stick together.

They have no choice, their unwashed flesh makes them literally stick together

 

[lovecraft68]

When you see a sign at a spa or salon advertising facials and you can't stop thinking money shot.

When you see a sign for the ATM and think of something very different.

 

[luv2custrip]

When a perfectly normal innocent conversation gets twisted into a deviant tale of lust in your head and you begin struggling to talk to the person because you're absolutely imagining them as the star of the story and trying to work out their personality to get the character built out in your head.

Not that I do this.

Nor do I imagine joggers in tight pink shorts or cuties out walking their dogs as the stars of my next stories.
That would be wrong.

 

[luv2custrip]

Random people in the wild is one thing.

Contract workers at your place of employment are another. He wasn't even in the building, just called. Apparently I have a voice kink now.

Ah voices. I have a contact named “Paris.” I try to extend our conversations with meaningless babble.

 

[lovecraft68]

Random people in the wild is one thing.

Contract workers at your place of employment are another. He wasn't even in the building, just called. Apparently I have a voice kink now.

A woman that I speak to on the phone from one of our other locations has a smoky voice with an Australian accent, and she makes talking about the budget sound sexy.

 

[alohadave]

I've always known I had a thing for Northern Ireland accents, and Ireland accents, actually. English accents are new to me though. One English singer sending me a link to their YouTube channel and I'm smitten with the accent.

I was on a support call with our Ireland office one time, and I could have listened to her voice all day long.

 

[luv2custrip]

I've always known I had a thing for Northern Ireland accents, and Irish accents, actually. English accents are new to me though. One English singer sending me a link to their YouTube channel and I'm smitten with the accent.

Never heard an attractive Boston accent before though, so this one caught me off guard.

Female British accents are the main reason I started my British girl’s school stories. I can hear the accents even if my readers can’t.

 

[MillieDynamite]

When the Halloween Contest is about to start and you wonder, "Can I get two more done before they close the entry process?" My wife answers, "Why you asking me?" I say, "I was just thinking out loud." Jo says, "Think quieter then."

Was it bad of me that she was eating me out at the time?

 

[Altissimus]

--- when you publically announce that you "don't do Halloween," then you spend the next few weeks crafting a Halloween contest story based on a character that "doesn't do Halloween."

Ok, how can you have read it when it's not even published yet?!

 

[luv2custrip]

A woman that I speak to on the phone from one of our other locations has a smoky voice with an Australian accent, and she makes talking about the budget sound sexy.

I was going to write a story in which the MC has a voice that makes women so hot, they shut their office doors and get down with their bad selves.

 

[Duleigh]

Ok, how can you have read it when it's not even published yet?!

Dude, that was MY story theme too!

 

[dmallord]

You know you are a die-hard Lit Author when ...
You log in and go straight to the FORUM instead of checking your scores. You are more interested in checking out what others whose names you recognize have said about being a Lit Writer.