You Know You Write Too Much When...

Originally compiled by:
D-kun, Master of Prose, Champion of the Keys, He Whose Ego Cannot be
Contained by a 13G HD :) (dfloyd84@yahoo.com)

Additional symptoms contributed by:
(I have no contributers yet!)

- Every waking moment is spent thinking  of what to pit your main character(s)
  against in the next chapter.

- Thirty chapters is not enough.
  - Forty CHARACTERS is not enough.
  - A half-dozen separate, unrelated stories is not enough!
    - Each with a plethora of cast members to keep track of!

- One story has a whole mythos to go witth it.  (Dude, cut back on writing!)
  - Every story has a whole mythos to go with it.  (Get help NOW!)

- Self-insertion is a regular thing in yyour writing.

- You scrutinize every chapter, every alllusion made by every character, just
  to make a timeline that correlates with everything.
  - And you add events that haven't happened in the story, just because they
    flesh out your mythos.
  - But you're not making it for yourself, because you know verbatim what
    happens at every point in every story.

- Every paper you hand in has your charaacters and ideas doodled in the
  margins.
  - And your teacher(s) have seen it so often they don't notice it anymore.

- You write a story for EIGHT YEARS and  STILL don't think it's finished!
  - After ten years, you pitch it and start it again.

- Lemon chapters are not too far behind  in your deranged mind.

- MSTing your work is your idea of relaxxing.

- Your "My Documents" folder is a half-mmeg of just your unfinished works.
  - or a whole meg.
  - or over two megs (mine is 3.48MB at this time)
  - or a gig or better.

- Your keyboard is showing signs of extrreme wear and tear.
  - The fifth keyboard you went through this month is showing signs of W&T.

- You can type at alarming speeds.  (Youu should hear me typing!)
  - Those speeds make career typists jealous.

- Virtually everything (animate or inaniimate) has some hidden meaning or pun
  in another language (Toriyama-sensei...).

- You don't have a social life, spendingg all your free time writing.

- You decide to completely rewrite a ratther good epic for the sole reason
  that you rewrote another epic that preceded it.

- You and your publisher are on a first  name basis.
  - You and everyone at the publishing house are on a first name basis.

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