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Mistress_Renata
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7/30/04 8:22pm
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You take up martial arts just so you can get your fight scenes down right.
*raises hand* Done that! Which is why the girl who nearly flunked Phys Ed is only one step away from black belt! Ah, if my gym teacher were only alive to see me now...
Oh, and YKYAFFWW: you spend 3 hours on the phone to your neuroscientist friend, grilling her on scientific details for your story...
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The_Jedi_Ambyr-Rose
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7/30/04 8:31pm
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When you are sitting in the new local restaraunt and you order a food from the Star Wars realm, and the waitress looks at you quizzically.
When you can't think of the right answer on your world history test, so you give the historical data of Tatooine, and you get an A.
When you call your mother Leia.
When you call your dad Leia.
When you name your pet after your OC.
When you mow your lawn you think about how your OC would handle chores.
When you ask your mother for some bacta instead of a band-aid.
When you read King Arthur for English and parallel it to the Star Wars universe.
When any Celine Dion sad love song turns into a Jaina Solo viggie.
When you can't stop thinking about Star Wars in general!
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Vampi_Digitalwytch
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7/30/04 8:52pm
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Your hubby asks the kids what's that thumping sound coming from the computer room and they reply "Mom's got Darth Writer's Block again."
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Lonewolf89
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7/30/04 8:58pm
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ROTFL!!!  Great one, Vampi_Digitalwytch!
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Vampi_Digitalwytch
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That actually happened. What made it funnier was my hubby poking his head in the room asking if he dressed up as Obi-Wan would that help?
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kayladie97
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7/30/04 10:18pm
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Oh, man, guilty of a LOT of these! Especially the song ones. I find myself relating every song I hear to SW characters, usually Luke/Mara.
You start using Star Wars swear words instead of real ones in real life.
Done that one!
You dream about your stories
DEFINITELY done that one...
Work becomes the annoyance into your writing time.
Ain't that the truth!
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.
Guilty WAY too many times...
When you can't think of the right answer on your world history test, so you give the historical data of Tatooine, and you get an A.
That one made me laugh out loud!
When the following scene is a regular occurrence in English classes:
Teacher: OK, write a 600-word story for next week.
dj: whoo~
Teacher: dj, don't write about Star Wars.
dj: >_<
Bummer! 
Okay, here's a few of my own...
-When you're so enthused about a fanfic you're reading, you rush home from work just to see if the author replied to your comment yet.
-When you've bugged your family so much about what they think of your story that they start to avoid you at get-togethers.
-While watching Spider-Man 2, you look at the scene on the train where the people lift a passed-out Spidey over their heads and think "Wow, that would be really cool to do with Luke!" (I really did that!  )
-When you describe your story to your mother as an AU of the OT with L/M and H/L and then realize you have to explain all that to her! (unless you're lucky enough to be VadersMistress and your mother is VaderLVR64!  )
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Knight_Dilettante
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7/30/04 11:14pm
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LOL at Vampi and her hubby.
My contribution:
You know... when your 5 year old calls the time you spend writing fanfic "working" and you don't correct her.
KD
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Dev_Binks
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7/31/04 4:38am
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I'm mad, I had a really good one, but then forgot. And as this goes on I get more and more guilty.
... You pick up any book and automatically try to figure out something to do with the characters.
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Vampi_Digitalwytch
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7/31/04 4:59am
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You know... when your 5 year old calls the time you spend writing fanfic "working" and you don't correct her.
ROFLM*AO! Ooooh...my house isn't the only one where that happens...*laughs again*
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Knight-Ander
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7/31/04 5:17am
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...you admit your spelling errors by spelling "spelling" S-P-E-E-L-I-N-G.
I've seen alot of others who are very guilty of this and you know who you are. 
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Layren
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7/31/04 6:44am
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Goodness I'm guilty of half of those hehee LOVED the "mom's got darth writer's block again"
I was complaining to my hubby about my laptop's lack of memory -- then realized over half the space was taken up by chat programs and word documents ... yeah...
When watching Episode 1 and 2 you keep thinking of different ways you could've done it better in an AU.....
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TheBothanJedi
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You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
... you use "writer's block" as an excuse to grab some well earned free time.
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Vongchild
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Date Posted:
7/31/04 10:00am
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You have a screen name / e-mail address named for an OC Guilty!!!
You get up in the middle of the night to write down plot bunnies.
You have so many stories going that you have to delete the links to old ones.
You get mad when your sibling/parent/friend reads your notepad because they might steal your bunny.
You know why its called a plot bunny
You've resorted to using Appleworks because IT doesn't have the annoying red lines (I have!)
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Mistress_Renata
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7/31/04 1:51pm
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Oh, I forgot...
...when you start seeing OCs on the sidewalk and the train everyday! I swear Hai Gan's Thom Capella swooshed by me on a bicycle in New Orleans last May!!! And a friend of mine says she saw a character from one of my non-SW stories at a Christie's auction once...
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Healer_Leona
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7/31/04 3:24pm
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Renata you've left me the perfect lead in..
When you get the chance to meet an actor (James Marsters-Spike in Buffy) and ask him to sign a pic of him manipulated to look like a fanfic OC-- Barin Truthfinder. {HaiGan's OC--so perhaps that's reading too much fanfic 
When you talk about fanfic so much at work that co-workers not only know your author name, they make nicknames for it...
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