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While you are reading another writer’s work, you find yourself thinking: “Too much tell; not enough show”.

You’ve found yourself using the word ‘procrastination’ more and more.

You have a drawer just containing pens. Some of them you kept unlawfully (from the Bank, the Post Office …)

Battling with your manuscript for the past 2 weeks, doesn’t seem to interest anyone but you.

You think you’ve invented a new fiction genre.

You’ve stared at a computer screen for more than an hour without actually adding anything.

Publishing houses have somehow been transformed from those great places that print books into fortresses that must be stormed.

A rejection doesn’t make you utterly depressed for a week any more.

You’re the only person you know who uses the word ‘conducive’ in everyday speech.

Just for a moment there, you thought one of your characters was a real person.

You know what an unsolicited submission is.

Quoting someone in an e-mail to a friend, you pause to consider whether to to use double inverted commas or single quote marks.

You found yourself nodding and smiling at most of these.

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