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JadeSolo
Title: NSF managing NSWFF
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Date Posted:
7/29/04 10:25pm
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RE: You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
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Driving at night alone you push the 'hyperdrive' forward, push you body back in the seat and make the noise.
LM*AO!! That's definitely me, except I pretend I'm in a speeder, or Anakin's Jedi starfighter, and I wait until the last second to turn the wheel so that I end up whipping around those country road curves...
...and the whole time I'm thinking, "Dude, now if only I could describe this, I'd have a cool action fic!" 
How about, when you hold your hairbrush, or for that matter anything else relatively cylindrical and big enough to accomodate your hands, and do the snap-hiss hummmmmmmmm and the wowwwmmmmmmm wowwwwwmmmmm as you choreograph your characters' moves.
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JediNemesis
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 2:25am
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RE: You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
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. . . when you get up and fling yourself around the room in front of a mirror, checking that the fight moves make sense
. . . when you end up with 37 beginnings of stories on your computer and have no time to finish any of them
. . . and even if you did, you don't know where to start
. . . you allow your life to become dominated by updates and challenges
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Arin_Atona
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 5:24am
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... Your default reaction to red squiggly lines is to 'Add to Dictionary'.
... The barista at the coffee shop reads over your shoulder.
... You continue typing until 3am trying to write the funniest dialog ever... but the next day wonder why you ever thought that would be funny.
... "Excuse me, where's the 'fresher?"
... You find yourself hungry for a dish from your OC's homeworld.
... Your OC is attracted to another character and you get jealous.
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Kettch_the_Jedi
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7/30/04 6:14am
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...you hear the word "bunny" and cringe
...you're in the middle of doing something (like a conversation) and a great humor dialogue/scene idea hits you and you start laughing really hard. The people around you ask what is wrong and you start to explain only to end with "Oh, nevermind. You wouldn't get it."
...you don't mind going to a boring class because you can use the time to finish writing a new post
...you get confused whether something is from an official book or whether it came from (yours or someone else's) fanfic
...you wake up in the morning and immediately wonder if you have to update any stories today
...after spending eight hours at work programming the first thing you do when you get home is get back on the computer to see if you have any responses to your latest post
...you see/hear something and begin to think "What if..." and then immediately cut yourself off because you already have too many stories going.
This is fun.  Great thread idea.
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Dev_Binks
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Aug '03
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 6:15am
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Your default reaction to red squiggly lines is to 'Add to Dictionary'. Guilty...
Whenever the green line pops up you immediatly click 'ignore rule' because of dialogue...
You have at least two disks and three notepads...
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MariahJade2
Title: FanFic Archive Editor
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 6:37am
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Friends or family ask you what you did last night, and you lie and say something else when you actually spent all evening working on or reading fan fic. 
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DarthBreezy
Title: Retired Mos Everett Cantina Founder & JMPR
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 6:59am
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- when you've got your OC and canon names programed into your Word dictionary so they don't pop up w/ a red line under them.
Add to that, planet names, weapons and alien words.
My Custom dictionary reads like a day at Skywalker Ranch...
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Layren
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 7:06am
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RE: You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
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When bantha, kriff, blaster, jedi, sith, Coruscant, and hyperspace don't get underlined in red on your word processor.
When you have more than three fanfics open in your word processor at once.
*raises hand* Guilty as charged, Lilith ... hhehehehehee. Don't forget lightsaber, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan .. Sith ....etc etc they're all programmed in too  along with my OC's names I got tired of seeing the red lines
Edit -- When you're somewhere important and the only thing on your mind is rushing home to see if you got anymore reviews for the story you posted that morning....
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JediNemesis
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7/30/04 7:27am
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. . . when you get so sick of red and/or green squiggly lines, you turn the auto-spellcheck off
. . . when you start dreaming about fanfic 
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obi_ew
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7/30/04 7:45am
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When you are very protective of your OC's and speak about them as if they're real people. 
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Sara_Kenobi
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 7:57am
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RE: You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
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Here's one: When you start thinking what your work place would look like with a Death Star blasting it's way threw the roof. 
Edit: Speeling 
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JadeSolo
Title: NSF managing NSWFF
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 8:07am
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...you have a really cool Star Wars dream, or any cool dream for that matter, and your first thought upon waking up is to write it down so that you can turn it into a plot for a fic.
And I have dreamed many times about other people's stories.
OE: What? You mean they're not real???
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Jedi Trace
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Dec '99
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 8:16am
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RE: You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
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7/30/04 8:17am (1 edits total)
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...you put the kids to bed, pour a glass of wine, cuddle up with your husband on the couch......and brainstorm about the outline of your fic. 
(I should mention that my husband also writes fanfic and totally understands - thank the Force. )
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Lonewolf89
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 8:27am
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When you lie in bed at night writing out your next post in your head.
Everytime you see an interesting name, you write it down and keep it to use for you next OC.
When you annoy your friends asking, “How does that line work? Should I reword it?”
All you family and friends know if they interrupt you while you're writing they risk losing their head. ( I can get very cranky if someone breaks in while I'm working on my fics.)
You have at least five plot ideas running through your head right now.
Everytime a new song comes on the radio, you wrack your brain to figure out how to make it into a songfic.
When you read a novel, you spend most of your time picking it apart, imagining how a fan fic author could have written it so much better.
You take up martial arts just so you can get your fight scenes down right.
When your computer crashes and you discover your fan fics have all been lost, you spend the next few weeks in counseling.
- when you've got your OC and canon names programed into your Word dictionary so they don't pop up w/ a red line under them.
I’m guilty of that. SW planet names and characters can all be found in my Word Dic.
You continue typing until 3am trying to write the funniest dialog ever... but the next day wonder why you ever thought that would be funny.
I know what you mean. I spent five hours writing a chapter once only to delete it the next day.
You get confused whether something is from an official book or whether it came from (yours or someone else's) fanfic
That one happens to me all the time.
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DarthIshtar
Title: Former CR
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Date Posted:
7/30/04 8:51am
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When you think every blizzard makes it look like you're going through hyperspace.
I am guilty of the "Fling yourself around the room to make sure the fight moves make sense" one, though usually, it's me choreographing my lightsaber duels in about 5 feet of space, mostly I sit here and dance in my seat.
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