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Dev_Binks
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8/4/04 11:09am
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I have one small notebook that has a couple stories in them, I kinda just left them. And then I have another notebook that I'm working on writing right now. I generally write the stories that I write when I'm bored in them.
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Jedi-2B
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8/4/04 6:53pm
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When you feel like a deer caught in headlights when someone (who has never heard of fanfic and thinks SW is kids' stuff) asks what you do all day at home, and you have to quick think up some plausible fabrication.
When you make a point to watch the credits on a movie or TV show (or scan through the newspaper) just to look for odd-sounding names.
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JadeSolo
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8/4/04 7:00pm
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Similar to ^^^ ...your mom calls you and asks what you're doing, and you say, "I'm checking my email."  "Reading" is also another good excuse.
Ummmm...when you scan through the newspaper looking for interesting articles that you can warp into posts if you have writer's block? Hehe... Well hey, at least it gets me reading the paper. 
... when you spend breaks while writing academic papers writing fanfiction.
Heh, I take breaks from fanfic to write papers. 
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NarundiJedi
Title: FF Chapter Rep Albany, NY
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8/4/04 7:42pm
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Most of my moments of realizing I'm a fanfic writer come when I find myself asking for information to make my stories more accurate.
For instance, I asked some microbiologists at my former lab job how one would go about testing an unknown substance for virus. I got a long, detailed answer that made me realize how far I'd sunk. 
Another time I was asking my mom (a physician) about something pregnancy related, again for my fanfic. She got suspicious that I was hiding something before I told her it was for my story. When she rolled her eyes at me I realized I was addicted to fanfic. 
Jae 
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Darth_Solent
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Opps, I really didn't mean to post, but pushed Enter accidentally!
Okay, okay, since I did anyway, I suppose I could give some examples...
You know you're a Fan fiction writer when...
You ask your brother (a firefighter/paramedic), your sister (a nurse), and your mother (a doctor) for information to make sure your twist will work.
You read posts in your dreams from stories you're keeping up, only to get online the next day and learn that it's not updated yet, or that it didn't go the way you dreamt it did.
Which is it? A post or a chapter?
When you accidentally stabbed your hand resulting in black blood, your first thought is, “How can I describe this?” (guilty)
Someone you know gets an injury (like a broken arm or something) and they’re endlessly complaining about how much it hurts, but you’re reminded of all the Obi-torture fics you read, and how Obi (though stabbed/shot/burned/poisoned/whatever you can think of) kept his mouth shut and survived.
((Solent))
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TheBothanJedi
Title: FF President, DB 516 L.I. NY
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8/5/04 1:12pm
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You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...
... You feel guilty that you have been way to frichen busy with work and other important real world stuff to work on your current fic-in-progress.
Guilty as charged...
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Layren
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8/5/04 1:16pm
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When you feel like a deer caught in headlights when someone (who has never heard of fanfic and thinks SW is kids' stuff) asks what you do all day at home, and you have to quick think up some plausible fabrication.
Guilty as charged Though most of the time I say uh.. "reading -- writing, checking e-mail and doing chores around the house..." "
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JediLeeora
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When your english teacher starts quoting star wars in class thinking it will get the students motivated and the only reason she started doing that was because your last paper was a fanfic you wrote...
Sad but true...
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Mistress_Renata
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8/6/04 6:10pm
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...when your entire martial arts classes starts referring to the movements as "the Darth Maul cut" and the "Mace Windu" block, instead of by their proper names...
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Dev_Binks
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8/7/04 12:01pm
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... when you have to baby-sit two little girls and you watch them just to get children characterizations right.
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dianethx
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Renata, I love that. I don't do martial arts but when I see it in the theaters I keep thinking "Ohhhh, go Maul."
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ophelia
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8/7/04 1:27pm
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When somebody asks you what your hobbies are, they either get a 15-minute answer about what fan fiction is, why anyone would write it, what yours is about, and why you can't just "send it to the company and have them publish it," or else you just say: "Computers. I like being on the computer."
You write movie-canon fic and you find yourself writing paragraphs in which you have to untangle three different "he's," since pretty much every freaking character besides Padmé and Leia is male.
You know all the ALT + number combinations for various multinational ASCII characters just because you write so many alien names. (And then, as Padmé, Cordé, and Cliché approached Bçèfgï©hîÞ¿f½² . . .")
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Arldetta
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8/7/04 3:31pm
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I don't know if this has been said yet, haven't made it all the way through. But I wanted to get them out before I forgot them again. Anyway....
.... you see series/season finales end with cliffhangers and you say, "That's it? I've written/read worse on the boards!!"
.... you've done more research for a story in two months than you did in your entire school career, including college!
.... you rush home from work or school just to read the reactions to your latest cliffie!!  (This happens to be my personal fav. )
Of course I'm also terribly guilty of many others posted here, such as watching a movie or having something happen in real life that you try and incorporate in a fic. Oh I know there are more but I think that's enough for now.
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solojones
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The one about the show "The OC" made me laugh because I thought the same thing when I first heard about it. I was like, "The OC? Whose? Which one?" Then I found out it was supposed to be about Orange County and laughed because no one, especially no one who lives there, calls it "The OC"
Ophelia:
When somebody asks you what your hobbies are, they either get a 15-minute answer about what fan fiction is, why anyone would write it, what yours is about, and why you can't just "send it to the company and have them publish it," or else you just say: "Computers. I like being on the computer."
I just usually kind of give a vague "I write a lot" since I still haven't managed to explain Fan Fic to my family despite them all having read some of mine.
You write movie-canon fic and you find yourself writing paragraphs in which you have to untangle three different "he's," since pretty much every freaking character besides Padmé and Leia is male.
And Mon Mothma But truly, I know just what you mean. This happens to me a lot. You write a story about Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Anakin and you end up with euphamisms like "the Jedi Master", "the young Jedi", and "the boy" just because you're sick of getting your "he"s confused.
Cliché
Best. Handmaiden. Ever.
Here are some more I came up with:
* You take up fencing to write better lightsabre duels (and because it's fun to pretend you're a Jedi  )
* Your best friend/beta/muse (Terr_Mys ) sends you a cardboard cutout of AOTC Obi-Wan for your birthday.
* You talk to said cardboard cutout and the one of Han he's standing next to for story inspiration.
* You actually believe you can hear said cardboard cutouts talking back to you and thank them for their story inspiration.
* When you find out someone you know in RL is a fanficcer and has read some of the same fics you have, you completely flip out (seriously weird/cool)
* While watching the movies, you start thinking missing moments you've written/read are actual scenes and become disappointed when they're not in there 
* You made a random Geonosis Jedi into an OC and now said character is one of your favourites in the movies.
* Random JCers who don't even read your crazy Obi-Wan-centric fics start telling you out of the blue that you remind them of Obi-Wan. This is the highlight of your day.
-sj loves kevin spacey
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JediLeeora
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you create fake lightsabers out of paper towel roles glued together to choreograph a fight scene. And force your brother to use one to try and attack you...
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