You might be an insane author if...

[MrsPepper]

No! I prefer black ink as well.

 

[superfan]

So how many journals do you have now, Mrs.Pepper?

 

[MrsPepper]

Um... about 9. Let's see: 1 is completed, one is almost completed, three are half done. Two are completely empty because I've ripped pages out. 3 are completely untouched. That makes 10. ^_^

 

[RedDragon]

...If you write "Epics" instead of stories because you can't figure out how to get to the climax or you can't think of an ending, so you just keep writing.
...If you just never end any of your stories for various reasons.
...If when trying to write a part of your story, you think its no good so you rip out tons of pages of work and rewrite the whole section.
...If your characters suddenly take your story hostage, and start doing crazy and unexpected things.
...If when writing you only use action scenes so by the end of the story your reader is having a heartattack.
...If you always find amazing cliff hangers at the end of every scene, that just get more and more dangerous as the book goes on until all your charcters are the most impossible places to save?
...If no matter how hard you try you can't same to get a story out of your head and onto paper.
...If your reduce to strange ways to get over writer's block, like crazy rituals or eating your story.(Feel free to dicuss how you get over your WB, it might help the rest of us.)
...If when your look back on your story you say "What was I thinking when I wrote this?" then you realize you weren't thinking at all(or something like that).

(These crazy statements come to you from a conversation between me and Beau, and contributions from readers like you, Thank You!)

 

[superfan]

If we think our processes are odd, can imagine what Stephen King goes through? Yikes!

 

[RedDragon]

...If you have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to write down some of your story.
...If your mind starts making up stories without your consent.
...If you have so many stories in your head you don't know which to start writing, and so decide to write none of them.
...If you work out you daily problems or releave your boredom by talking or playing around with your characters.

 

[jediX]

...If you ever become possessed by your characters for brief periods of time (how else would I have ever written 80 pages in one NIGHT?)
...You make up a fictional sitcom with yourself in it and actually write episodes. (which I recently did for an assignment in my writing class)
...You care more about your characters than actual living people.
...You have set up a keyboard shortcut to open Word. (which I did, it isn't hard)
...You hate reading but love writing. (sorry, other writers )
...You take college English classes even if you aren't an English major. (done it, still do it)
...You can find grammatical errors on tombstones. (yup)
...When you find a grammatical error in something, you become distracted and lose focus on what you were even reading until you rewrite the sentence in your mind or add in a missing punctuation. (what can I say, people just don't know how to use commas anymore)
...When you get into arguments with people about whether or not the US or British grammatical style is the proper one. (been there, done that)
...If you refuse to write anything by hand because you are always revising stories years after they have been "completed." (that's my style in a nutshell)
...If you prefer your own writing over published writing. (guilty as charged)
...If you have ever used built 'sets' and used Lego minifigures to stage scenes from stories to see if the schematics are believable. (I must admit, I have actually done this on numerous occasions and it worked extremely well)
...If you publish your writing online even if you are the only person that goes and reads it. (tis my curse)

Now, when it comes to research papers and other written horrors of academia...
...If you have ever taken a can of Coke, poured it in a glass, and added sugar until it became a thick slurry, only to chug it down. After doing this, I managed to pull off a 12-page single-space research paper in about 3 1/2 hours. I crashed pretty hard that night. I would try that again sometime, but I'm really not interested in developing diabetes.

 

[RedDragon]

...If you have ever used built 'sets' and used Lego minifigures to stage scenes from stories to see if the schematics are believable. (I must admit, I have actually done this on numerous occasions and it worked extremely well)

Hmm...may have to try that sometime...

Now, when it comes to research papers and other written horrors of academia...
...If you have ever taken a can of Coke, poured it in a glass, and added sugar until it became a thick slurry, only to chug it down. After doing this, I managed to pull off a 12-page single-space research paper in about 3 1/2 hours. I crashed pretty hard that night. I would try that again sometime, but I'm really not interested in developing diabetes.

Wow, talk about sugar rush, I'm surpised you were able to focus on the paper.

 

[crazed gonzo fa]

Well I'm not an author, but I think I'm insane sometimes. One or two of these things might apply to me. IT'S A MAD HOUSE!!!!! A MAD HOUSE!!!!!! Not LOL, PIOL: Proclaim Insanity Out Loud. HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

 

[jediX]

Wow, talk about sugar rush, I'm surpised you were able to focus on the paper.

Aside from that I had to get up and run around every once and a while. Not exactly a utilitarian strategy if you're out in public trying to work.

Actually, scratch that. I see people doing weirder stuff than running around like maniacs on a daily basis.