{"id":1691,"date":"2013-10-07T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.free-ebooks.net\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2013-10-04T01:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T09:03:58","slug":"you-know-you-are-a-writer-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/you-know-you-are-a-writer-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you’re a writer when …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a writers\u2019 meme (?) on Facebook the other day.<\/p>\n

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I reposted it and tagged my husband, apologising, because there have been many times when I am writing something and I burst out mid-sentence, reading what I\u2019ve written out loud. He immediately\u00a0understood what it meant. I told him I\u2019d wait to be alone in future and his response was, \u201cNah. You won\u2019t. You\u2019ll just forget about it in the moment, and just go on reading out loud as you normally do.\u201d<\/p>\n

I am ashamed to say that he\u2019s probably right.<\/p>\n

Writer\u2019s Write<\/a> does a few of these a week. Most of them are so true, it hurts.<\/p>\n

See how many of the following \u201cYou know you\u2019re a writer when \u2026\u201d statements fit you. (And if you never considered yourself a writer before but these fit you anyway, maybe it\u2019s time you started writing.)<\/p>\n

I don’t get it …<\/h2>\n

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‘Hope Mom doesn’t read this …’<\/h2>\n

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‘For science …’<\/h2>\n

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‘It’s time to write …. not’<\/h2>\n

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-from The Oatmeal<\/a><\/p>\n

‘I know it’s art, but …’<\/h2>\n

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‘Just one more chapter…’<\/h2>\n

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‘Must. Have. Coffee. …’<\/h2>\n

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-from frabz<\/a><\/p>\n

‘And what if …’<\/h2>\n

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‘But you have so many already …’<\/h2>\n

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(especially books about writing)<\/p>\n

And finally …<\/p>\n

‘I love you all, each and every one …’<\/h2>\n

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** Source and credit to Writers Write blog<\/a> unless otherwise specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a writers\u2019 meme (?) on Facebook the other day. I reposted it and tagged my husband, apologising, because there have been many times when I am writing something and I burst out mid-sentence, reading what I\u2019ve written out loud. He immediately\u00a0understood what it meant. I told him I\u2019d wait to be alone in future and his response was, \u201cNah. You won\u2019t. You\u2019ll just forget about it in the moment, and just go on reading out loud as you normally do.\u201d I am ashamed to say that he\u2019s probably right. Writer\u2019s Write does a few of these a week. Most of them are so true, it hurts. See how many of the following \u201cYou know you\u2019re a writer when \u2026\u201d statements fit you. (And if you never considered yourself a writer before but these fit you anyway, maybe it\u2019s time you started writing.) I don’t get it … ‘Hope Mom doesn’t read this …’ ‘For science …’ ‘It’s time to write …. not’ -from The Oatmeal ‘I know it’s art, but …’ ‘Just one more chapter…’ ‘Must. Have. Coffee. …’ -from frabz ‘And what if …’ ‘But you have so many already …’ (especially books about writing) And finally … ‘I love you all, each and every one …’ ** Source and credit to Writers Write blog unless otherwise specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[384,383,66,12,150,73,42,244,192,185],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-imagination","tag-reading","tag-social","tag-storytelling","tag-write","tag-writer","tag-writers","tag-writing-2"],"views":6850,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}