How to tell if you're a (good) writer...

1. If you constantly talk to yourself.

2. If you talk to yourself about talking to yourself

3. If, when you talk to yourself, you sometimes speak as if talking to another person

4. If, after uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand in awe and say, Wow, this is good stuff for sugar highs!

5. If you live off of sugar and caffeine.

6. If people start to notice that you tend to check your e-mail every day for a week, then suddenly disappear off the face of the planet.

7. If you know what writer's block is.

8. If your e-mails tend to be pages long and incredibly random, or full of criticism.

9. If, when replying to someone else's e-mail, you are sometimes so random that you fail to address the original message altogether.

10. If you tend to collect the Bic Stics people leave lying around, kind of like picking pennies off the ground.

11. If, no matter where you are in your room, you never have to so much as get up to reach a pen/pencil and paper.

12. If the letters are starting to wear off on the keys of your keyboard.

13. If you memorized your keyboard.

14. If people think you might have A.D.D.

15. If you think it'd be cool to have A.D.D.

16. If you have a grudge against Mary-sue's...even though you wrote a story with one in the past.

17. If you know what a Mary-sue is.

18. If you think about making lists like this, and start giggling for no apparent reason.

19. If your friends don't even bother to look funny at you anymore when you start giggling for no apparent reason.

20. If you go crazy over simple spelling/ grammar errors.

21. If you don't like criticism, although you are a critic yourself.

22. If you tend to dream about your stories at night.

23. If you write stories based on your dreams.

24. If you can recite the alphabet backwards.　できない！！！

25. If you start constantly talking in third person, past tense.

26. If you can type/ write fast. REALLY fast.

27. If you write 1000-word rough drafts for your story, then erase it and write something totally different for the final.

28. If you know basic writer terms (ex: beta-, canon, lemon...etc.)

29. If you know what 'etc' really means, and know the elongated written version of it...

30. And finally, the number one way to tell if you’re a good writer: If you failed English 101 then ended up in an advanced course.