You know you're a writer when...

(Write these as if they apply to everybody, not just yourself)

--Buying notebooks, binders, paper, and pens get you really, really excited.

--You actually enjoy English class.

--Your flash drive is your "precious."

--Your best friends are the characters in your novel.

--You spend all of your classes writing your novel.

--Your friends are constantly telling you that you need to focus in class.

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--You constantly find yourself insisting that "They're real people!"
--"Oh yeah, this one time my friend - oh wait, that's a character"
--Your previous searches on Google could get you committed
--Your friends can expect never to see you at all during November
--You start to use phrases from 17th-century England in daily conversations

- Something happens and your fiance says 'That reminds me of [character]' because you've spoken about your characters so much he knows them like friends.

--You have hundreds of papers flying around your room with ideas for characters and even more empty notebooks.

--You wake up in the middle of the night with the perfect story idea and write it down on a notebook by your bed or enter it into your phone.

--You've sent a 2am text to your best friend about how you found the bloody knife and that so and so was next.

--You get a phone call the next morning about the text. Your friend isn't mad she just wishes you would stop sending her texts of your novel at 2am (M I love you! You are stil my lifesaver)

--If the FBI ever took your computer you would be in BIG TROUBLE

--You watch Deadliest Warrior for accurate fights and weapons you've never heard/seen.

--Your mother flipped on you when she found that you had a baby name book and had to spend two hours explaining that you where not pregnant at all.

--Your daily life becomes parts of your book as you know no one would believe that this stuff actually happens to you.

I'll add more as I think of them.

-You often reference your characters when something happens, then realize no one in the room has read your novel and they're all staring at you weirdly.
-You spend a week with your best friend trying to reach 100 pages of script in seven day (like Script Frenzy, only cooler, shorter, and with just the two of us competing)
-You're in love with your own characters
-You spend your time thinking about your hypothetical fandom (if you published your novel, it became a bestseller, and you had a giant fandom) and which ships would be most popular

I do all of the above :D

-you're reading this thread (which really, truly is the sign that you are an insane writer)
-you buy books you wouldn't normally because they apply to your characters and/or situations they're stuck in (ex: The Practical Pyromaniac, I'm terrified of fire, but I have a character that can control flame so they're def going to be trying some of the stunts in the book)

-you plot out a story that will give you enough plot for the next 10 years of your life.

-After dreaming all night about you character, you know what to do next in the story.

-You do crazy things so you can write believably about them in *potential* future stories.

- No matter where you are or what you're doing, you're thinking "I'd rather be writing"
- You have ten different notebooks, one for your car, one for work, one for your bookbag, etc. etc.
- You hoard names like you're planning on being on the next 19 Kids and Counting
- You take a book and writing pad to a wedding, just in case

-You squee when you see a story on Yahoo!News about the best pens.

...I'm such a loser... xD

You found the perfect writing desk and your current computer won't fit on it so you try to convince your husband that you need a new laptop.

--You imagine yourself breaking your ankle and your first thought is, "Nuts, I won't be able to sit comfortably while writing..."

--You obsessively collect pens. *Cough* They're so pretty.

--Your room is overrun with post-it notes, drawings, notes and general writing equipment.

--You listen to a long debate about the tragedies and difficulties of a martial arts class and you think, "This'll be great for helping me develop my plots."

~ You have ever Googled the names of multiple serial killers in a row to read up on their methods
~ You narrate your whole life in your head as you live it from a third person POV
~ You narrate other people's lives in your head through their first-person POV
~ Buying nachos brightens your whole day because then you can make a snack in thirty seconds (meaning your thought process doesn't get too badly interrupted)
~ You have ever spent more than an hour trying to cut a Facebook status down to fit in the 430-character limit without ruining what you're trying to say (although I hear they've done away with the limit, so I suppose that's no longer an issue)
~ People see the library books stacked around your house and assume you're a tap-dancing cop who moonlights as a surgeon who is planning on going to law school and has a secret dream to be a rapping radio DJ while cross-stitching photographs and is also coincidentally enough revising a novel. And sometimes they buy you Christmas gifts accordingly.

That's it for now, but I might add more...

-You know more about the drugs your character is taking than anything you are on
-You can't emotionally handle reading/watching any storylines having to do with pregnancy because your character recently had a miscarriage... even when you don't want to get pregnant yourself
-You practice your characters' signatures in the margins of your class notes
-You get more emotional about your characters' lives than your own
-You talk to yourself about your characters/plot while you are walking somewhere... and then wonder why people are staring at you
-When you can't think of dialogue, you act out the scene with yourself

You go rummaging through your family genealogy database to come up with unique names
You have 8 different colors of Pilot G2 gel pens because you can keep track of storylines better by using different colors
You know you have a stack of blank composition books at home - but pick a couple up while shopping - just in case

You always carry a notebook just small enough to fit in a purse in the event of a burst of creativity, and you also have writing apps downloaded to your iPhone in case you forget the notebook. :)

You buy baby name books just to think of character names that are different, unique, or have meanings pertaining to the plotline.

you carry a notebook everywhere you go and you spend time at work writing stuff down when really you should be keeping an eye on the things around you.

You decide to stay up late to finish a little homework (or other work) and then realize at some odd hour of the morning that you haven't even touched it because your plotting/outlining/stalking-the-Nano-forums got in the way.

-Someone asks you what's new and you tell them about the scene you just wrote
-You're leaving your characters to your writer-friend when you die because you know she'll take care of them like they were her own
-You follow so many other writers on Twitter that you forget that there are non-writers on the internet, too
-You got a netbook computer so you could more easily write while on the bus/train to and from work
-You enjoy menial labour because it gives you more time to think about plot/characters
-You write notes to yourself about someone who needs to die or a 'heart-warming Master/slave bonding scene' as a matter of course
-Realizing you've just made a character mortal makes you sad because it means he's going to die someday
-You've accidentally killed off a friend's character during the course of a conversation not just once, but several times
-Every song you hear reminds you of your own story in some way
-You're doing NaNo