June 27, 2012
You Might Be a Writer if…
- You love research more than your cat
- You’ve had your name on a milk carton because your friends haven’t seen you for so long.
- You feel the need to belt out your feelings. That done, you can edit them back to a semblance of sanity.
- You love words. You are a neologist at heart. You curl up at night with The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Difficult Words–and don’t fall asleep.
- There are times you feel like a very stupid bee banging against the same window over and over–but you never give up. It’s not in you to give up. You are a writer.
- Sometimes you go zero to sixty in five minutes, other times it takes five seconds. When inspiration strikes, you grab a pencil (or keyboard) and start writing. In the middle of dinner, when friends are over, driving–doesn’t matter. It’s time.
- Your family thinks you’re as deaf as a bat, but you’re just concentrating.
- You know it’s not the size of your words that matter. It’s your passion for writing.
- Statisticians may select their profession because they couldn’t stand the excitement of accounting, but yours is full of whatever you can conceive and believe.
- Sometimes writing, which is the dream of so many, is your nightmare.
If you related to over half of these, accept it: You are a writer.
Some other ‘Character Traits’ posts you might like:
- Characteristics of an American
- Characteristics of a Democrat
- Characteristics of a hacker
- Characteristics of military personnel
- Characteristics related to word pronunciation
- Characteristics of a Trekkie
Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-sixth grade, creator of two technology training books for middle school and four ebooks on technology in education. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blog, IMS tech expert, and a bi-weekly contributor to Write Anything. Currently, she’s editing a thriller for her agent that should be out to publishers this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
