7 ways to know you have got the writing bug in you

7 Ways to Know You Have
Got the Writing Bug in You

Vincent Eke

How do you know you have got the writing bug in you
if you are an aspiring or budding writer and newbie
author? When do you know whether you can write
and most importantly, how do you know what to
write about? Do writers have two heads or are
writers born to write? Or do they just learn to write
as they go about their daily lives?

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See if you have experienced any of these phenomena
below that will show you 7 ways to know you have
got the writing bug in you.


Bug You are always dreaming and
thinking of writing a #1 bestselling
#1 book
You know you have got the writing bug in you if you
find yourself in the toilet taking a break and all you
can think of is seeing your book at the number one
spot in the New York Times Best Sellers Lists. You
can't help yourself with this train of thought. You
find yourself getting a tingle every time these
thoughts run across your mind. If you find yourself
immediately thinking of that manuscript you have


Bug You are always dreaming and
thinking of writing a #1 bestselling
#1 book
started but unable to finish, then you have the writing
bug in you. You must go and pull the manuscript
out and start writing again. The only way to get into
that bestseller list is to keep writing, finish it and
have it published. Then start a new writing project
all over again. Have faith in your writing until one
day you will find that your book is in the New York
Times Bestseller Lists.


Bug You find yourself always doodling on
cafe napkins
#2
You are sitting at O'Briens Cafe with a Bacon & Brie
Melt toasted shambo with the best Arabica coffee
to chase it down in front of you. Instead of eating,
you find yourself asking the waitress for her
eyeliner pencil to use in writing down a magnificent
idea that just came into your mind. What you
should do next time is to punch your idea into your
mobile phone as a text message then send it to
yourself, carry a diary/notebook or a small bunch of

Bug You find yourself always doodling on
cafe napkins
#2
sticky notes with you. This will prevent you from
losing your napkins and thus your ideas.


Bug You keep an up-to-date personal
diary for no reason
#3
You are one of those who give their diary a human
name. Yes, you treat your diary like she is your SBF -
Secret Best Friend - and you write in first person.
You record every detail of every single thing you do
every day. But you dread showing it to anybody for
fear that they may laugh at you and call you uncool.
But you still like writing about every single thing you


diary for no reason
#3
do because, if Sarah Jessica Parker of
Sex and the City of the American television
comedy-drama series can do it, you can too. Good.
Writing about the events in your life - however
mundane they may be - is actually a feel-good and
wise thing to do. After all, everybody including you
has a story to tell. What you should do is start
recording all of your musings in a manuscript


diary for no reason
#3
format. This could be your first memoir in ten years
time. After all, some people have become famous
just from publishing the stories of the boring events
in their life.


Bug You are always day-dreaming of
being a famous published writer and
#4 author
You like to be known and be the centre of attention.
In fact, you crave it, you see the very popular
author JK Rowling of the Harry Potter books and
films or the latest raunchy author E. L. James of the
Fifty Shades of Grey fame and you wish you could
flick a wand and switch places with either of them
immediately. You find yourself browsing the latest
book by Stephen King on the bookshelf at Easons


#4 author
and thinking how that could be your published book.
In fact, day- dreaming has to be the number one
qualifying factor for being a writer, especially if you
are going to write fiction. In order to write fiction or
something that is neither true nor real, you have to
practically dream it up. You should know that there
is nothing wrong with your day-dreaming as long as
you don't forget to write down everything you


#4 author
dream up. You never know but one of your dreamt-
up fables could turn out to be the next bestseller.
So pick up that pen and paper now and start
writing.


Bug You have loads of ideas but you don't
know what to do with them
#5
You just can’t help it. Ideas seem to be pouring out of
every crevice in your body. If you feel a sense of
euphoria whenever a thought crosses your mind,
then you have the writer's bug. If you find yourself
laughing for no reason while taking a crap, then you
know you have the writer's bug. If you find yourself
analysing and conjuring up a lifestyle picture of


Bug You have loads of ideas but you don't
know what to do with them
#5
everybody you pass by while walking down Patrick's
Street in Cork, then you have the writing bug.
Write down all of the ideas that come into your mind
without analysing them for their merit at first. Later
on, after a few days, go back to them and read
through them again to see which ones are good
enough to convert into a fully-fledged story.


Bug After reading a book you think you
can do a better job than the author
#6
You find yourself nit-picking the use of grammar by
the writer. You find yourself noticing the spelling
errors in the book or article you are reading, even
though one or two professional copy editors are
supposed to have corrected the book. As you read
the book, you can't help yourself thinking ahead of
what the next scene on the next page would be.
You turn to the next page and you find that you are


#6
right. You have just barely managed to read half of a
book which has been getting a rave review.
However you find yourself rolling your eyes at the
ceiling wondering what the feck other people found
interesting about it. While reading a book you find
yourself coming up with an entirely different
scenario for the characters.


#6
What you should do is go with the flow and write
these ideas down and they could form the basis for
an entirely new storyline for your own book.


Bug You find yourself standing by the
fridge eating two pots of Strawberry
#7 Crumble at 4am
You have been up all night typing away at your
computer or doing it the old-fashioned way – hand
writing in your blue-lined notebook. Before you
know it, you are feeling famished and you walk to
the fridge to find the only good food left to eat at
such odd time of the night is two pots of Strawberry
Crumble. You surely have got the writing bug when


#7 Crumble at 4am
you suddenly look up at the clock and realise it is four
in the morning. At the same time, you realise that in
three hours’ time you will have to take your kids to
school or head off to work. Even though you have
been deprived off your beauty sleep, you feel
euphoric with an inner awareness that this sacrifice
is a good thing and that the pay-off in future will be


#7 Crumble at 4am
worth it. Yes, it will be worth it when you write and
publish your book and it turns out to be a
bestseller.

Let me know if you or somebody you know has got
the writing bug. How are you managing to express
or deal with these writing bugs in you?


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