you know you have a writer in the family when....

[Dreamy Lambert]

you know you have a writer in the family when they daydream for a long period of time and then tell you about it.

[cygnus - xp]

. . . when they write in Sharpie on the mirrors a profile of one of their original characters. o__O

[Le Royal Pain]

Pens. Everywhere.

[LadySnark]

Story ideas scribbled in the margins of all their class notes and hand-outs.

[Alberic of Krufton]

When you trade drafts back and forth and help each other brainstorm.

[Psychotic Maniacal Sanity]

They're really easy to buy gifts for. Notebooks and pens.

Always notebooks and pens...

[SebastiansLittleDoll]

When they get short stories/poems published in their college magazine.

(Apparently my dad did this. Had no idea o.O)

[Matsyshenko]

I have one of their books on my bookshelf?

[Riccieor]

when you see a name and ask "Who's <blank>?" and someone starts describing a white forest elf who lost her family in a fire caused by a rouge militaristic group of grumpkins, except for her little brother who survived the fire, but he's blind and she has to take him to their great aunt in Badlikz Mountain. That's where the High Septin's Preist is by the way.

[Corona Licorice]

Notebook hoarding collecting, and those random questions when researching for a story. I'm sure at times my parents question the topics I showed so much interest in rofl

[Lunar Gemini Hina]

When they realize that you buy notebooks constantly and the notebooks are all full of half finished stories or just half assed ideas. When you describe your weirdly insane (day)dreams or nightmares to someone and they think you're gonna turn it into a story. Sorry, I'm the only writer in my family. redface

[U_U YuYevOn]

When they take their writing to new extremes by forging it as any wordsmith would at their electronic fireplace with a light up stick for a hammer and a rotary tower fan for bellows... heart