5 Things You Should Know Before you Date (or heaven forbid, marry) A Writer.

1.We go to extreme lengths to delay writing. We want you to leave us alone so we can write but then you will find us: color coding the linen cupboard, cleaning out the fridge, baking three different kinds of cookies (For the children dammit!) Emailing that longlost friend from high school that we havent spoken to in 20 years and probably will never think about again for another 20. Ironing sheets... All of this stuff is essential FOR writing to happen because not until we have taken care of every single loose end and tied every loose thread in the jumbled mess that is our lives...only then can we sit down and actually write something. So, dont ever make the mistake of asking, 'But I thought you were supposed to be writing today?' Or 'Since you're not writing, why don't we have a fun outing to the hardware store together?' No. Just don't. Or we might shank you. Because even though it doesnt LOOK like it - we are WRITING.

2. You need to accept that if you date a writer, she is going to write about you. Somehow, somewhere, sometime. She may not do a Taylor Swift and compose an entire novel dedicated to telling her crappy ex-boyfriend that 'We are NEVER EVER getting Back Together' (and I'm happy and gorgeous and rich and successful and you suck, so there!) No, we're writers. We're more subtle. We have more class. (And most of us are not psycho rich and successful like Ms Swift and we don't want you to sue us for defamation.) Instead, we will put all the nicest pieces of you into our glorious romance leads. And those super sweet things you say or do for us? Will probably end up in a book somewhere. We may give you a pseudonym to protect your
innocence /hotness identity ( like "Hot Man"...) and blog about you. Which will be alright when only three people read our blogs but then it could become a little tricky for you when readership bounces up a few thousand. ( or sixty.) And then you might end up on airplanes where random women giggle and ooh and aah and ask you, 'Are you the Hot Man on so-and-so's blog?!' 

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