Pop Quiz!
I don’t want to take up too much of your time, since I’d rather you were reading the entries I’ve gotten so far for my Images to Words Contest! Really. They’re awesome and still trickling in. From what I’ve heard, I should expect another couple very soon. Deadline is Saturday at midnight, peeps! (What? Have no idea what I’m talking about? Go to contest here.)
So! Since I’m making this short again, I’m just going to give you a little writers’ quiz…
If you answer YES to 7 out of 10 questions below, CONGRATS… You’re a writer. (Or a writer very similar to myself.)
- Do you often lose sleep obsessing over the new scene that popped into your head that day?
- Do those fictional characters become so real to you that they could be your BFF, even if you dislike them?
- Does it make you antsy to do things like sit through an entire movie at the theater? You’re adding up the time it took to drive there, sit through previews, watch the movie, and drive home… all that time wasted where you could be writing. *Movie example could be interchanged with another form of “fun”.
- Do you sometimes have arguments in your head with your character? (Ex. “No, Hayes! Mallory still needs edits! I can’t write about you right now! Back off!”)
- Do you rotate between forgetting to eat or eating massive quantities of junk while staring at the computer?
- Do you hate the question, “What’s your book about?” (Because you can’t sum it up in a synopsis yet, much less a sentence in conversation.)
- Are calm and peaceful days suddenly interrupted by the fear you may never write a decent story in your life? You know, the days where the car commercial seemed to have a better opener than your book? The Am-I-Crazy days.
- Is “Show, Don’t Tell” the eleventh commandment in your home?
- Do you feel a special bond to a specific font?
- Does your computer and/or notebook feel like another appendage on your body?
This is the list I came up with off the top of my head. Maybe I’m off base and weird. Am I? What was your score? What would you add to the quiz?
Song of the day: To Go Home by M. Ward
Well of course! LOL my macbook is totally an appendage on my body! I really hope I get to the point where my characters are haunting me, that means I know them better than I do now, which is something, as you know, I need to work on.
I totally hate the “what is your book about” question… it’s so hard to sum up, and frankly I think it sounds stupid when I say it… need to work on that too!
Great post and quiz ;o)
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Regan Leigh Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Oh, you’ll get there.
(haunting)
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Those are great questions that had me chuckling to myself all the way through! I especially love the “computer/notebook feeling like an appendange” It definately does! I get antsy and my skin literally tingles a bit after a few hours if I’m not on the computer at least for fifteen minutes. It’s like a fix that I need! LOL My husband makes fun of me about it all the time, but he’s not a writer so he just doesn’t get it!
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Regan Leigh Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 4:44 am
Yes! And if my computer is an appendage, then my iPhone is like the elbow connecting it all. If I’m not on the computer, I’m using it!
Wait… did I just call my iPhone an elbow? Yep, 4am. Time for sleep.
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Oh well, guess I’m not a writer. I’ll have to go back to calling myself a Renaissance man again.
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I love your online pop quiz! This is the first one that’s told me I’m a writer. Yay! Thanks for posting this, Regan. I feel the same way about my computer as I do about chocolate – if I am not within a few metres of either, I am liable to self-destruct.
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This was great!
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Yeah, I used to go to the movies like weekly. Now, I’m down to two or three a YEAR. So, uh-huh, your quiz speaks to me, LOL!
Love your background theme!
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I passed the test. I am NOT a writer!!!!!
Now, do you have a test for Beta Readers???
1. Do you hound the author begging for new chapters in the middle of the night?
2. Do you tell you’re friends about this great book you’re reading and then say “but you can’t read it now because it hasn’t been published YET”
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I got a teeny netbook that I take everywhere with me, so it nearly has become an appendage
Every time I shut it down I feel strange not knowing where I’ll put my thoughts.
I’d add something about reading, too. I’m sitting here with a shipment of new books and it feels like Christmas
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NUMBER SIX IS MY LIFE.
Seriously, I’m an uber-plotter, so I can’t sum anything up until it’s all done and final.
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