Queen Victoria

…one is simply different.  That's all there is to it.  We writers are unique (some might say odd), and often misunderstood, because we have a passion for words.

Queen Victoria, ever mindful of propriety and history, once told her granddaughter, Princess Victoria Eugenie, the future queen of Spain, "Young woman, when one is born a princess, one cannot behave like others."

So, too, with writers.  When one is born a writer, one cannot behave like others because one, above all else, must write.  This means a few adjustments to a normal life. 

When One is Born a Writer, one often must:

• Stay up past midnight late to write
• Rise with the dawn to write
• (When Nanowrimoing, one must sometimes do both of the above)
• Miss sunny days to work on novel revisions
• Skip meals to write (somehow, this one never happens to me)
• Consider books a line item in the budget
• Live with either pen and paper in hand,  or head buried in a book. 
• Appear antisocial because of the above
• Appear dim-witted because you listen and observe instead of talking
• Have stooped shoulders from working on the computer so much
• Have poor vission from above
• Be incapable of walking past a bookstore without going in
• Be also incapable of walking past a stationary store without going in

Anyone want to add to the list of congenital traits of writers? Post a comment,and I'll compile them all for a future post.