You know you're addicted when....

""When you sign a check with your pen name, instead of your real name. "

-- Charmin

""When you have to have a pin-up chart taped to your desk, what days your contests start and end." "

-- Charmin

"You wonder if any famous people have found (or joined!) the site. Hey, you could be talking to a celebrity for all you know!"

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"You get more excited about your account birthday than your real birthday."

-- Aradne

"When you speak in 255 characters in length, or less."

-- Pia Veleno

"...when a friend summarizes the book they just read and it reminds you of a WDC short story you reviewed last week..."

-- Lorien

"when you sit at your comp and type asking your mom for a drink cause you think your in the room with her and your typing at the same time."

-- Angela's Niece needs Praye

"When you wonder if the WD-40 in scroll would work the same way on a long work day."

-- Pia Veleno

"When you are one of the 5 or 6 WDC couples that someone thinks about off the top of their head."

-- Silver is 2 to the 5th Power

"When you dream in WritingML format."

-- Pia Veleno

"When you see a folded 'Primark' shopping bag and wonder when iamMark opened his own chain store."

-- finnley

"When you read all of this and can relate. Bumper Stickers for WDC. Here! "

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"When you are aware of recurrent glitches and think that in two years time you'll have figured out how to correct them yourself! "

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

""When even though you haven't been around for months you still stay up to date on contests, couples, and who's probably going to be promoted soon.""

-- Jax: Not here.

"When IRL someone says a person's name or town/state, and you automatically think of someone on the site."

-- Jax: Not here.

"When you hear the word stupid in a G rated movie you go ballistic and scream "That's not E-rated!" in a packed theater."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"When, even off-site, you express yourself with {e:laugh}"

-- Silver is 2 to the 5th Power

"When people are shocked that these people you have been talking about in great detail are people whom you've never met in real life. "

-- Aradne

"When you send s more than you kiss your S/O."

-- Pia Veleno

"When you ask someone if a movie is E-rated. (but really mean G)"

-- Tigger thinks of Prancer

"When you use WritingML tags in place of HTML tags on other sites and are surprised when they don't work the same."

-- Satuawany

" You've been gone for months and find tons of C-Notes and wellwishes in your inbox and you're instantly happier than all the cards on your RL birthday."

-- Jax: Not here.

"OT: JAX!!!!! You would not believe what's been going on around here lately. Utter insanity. Oh wait. The usual."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"When a cigarette would cheer you up, but you don't know how much longer you can handle it before you HAVE to check your email."

-- Aradne

""When you read through all of the above and can relate to every one and not be embarrassed to admit it" MEG"

-- Meg

"When you have a thought of starting a support group for WDC but decide convention will do."

-- Jax: Not here.

"when you fall asleep and when you wake up you find yourself in front of PC on WDC"

-- Wolf

"You skip your workplace's Christmas party to hang out online."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"All the yellow pixels in your monitor have died"

-- Aradne

"You stay at school all day just because the computer lab has wireless, and it allows you to be on WDC that much faster."

-- ⭐Princette♥PengthuluWrites

"You consider asking for bed linens with the site logo on them."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"You wonder if it's possible to check your mail too many times a day after you close your eyes and still see the familiar beige-ish background color. "

-- Jax: Not here.

"When you physically harm someone for deleteing one email."

-- TSC

"When your friend calls to ask if you're busy because he/she wants to go to a movie, and you tell her you're busy."

-- ahmmburr

"WDC is your form of coffee."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"WDC is your form of cocain. Or Marijana."

-- TSC

"When your professor writes GP on the board for GreenPeace, you instantly think of Gift Points instead."

-- ⭐Princette♥PengthuluWrites

"When you babble on to anyone with two ears about "this great site called "Writing.com" "

-- Pen Name

"You try to write off your Writing.com expenses on your taxes."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

". . . you take a day off from work just to submit work to your portfolio."

-- Victoria

"When you're sitting at your computer on New Year's Eve, and you're late for a party, all because you want to check on your portfolio and emails, and suddenly you find this thing about your addiction and..."

-- flygirl254

"When you find yourself on this site anywhere from 5-8 hours a day (maybe I need to get a job and/or life)."

-- Fivesixer

"You have more authors and items in your "favorites" list than you have views of your blog, and more WDC windows open on your desktop than you have windows total in yours and your neighbor's house combined."

-- Fivesixer

"You paint your house/walls/car to match the site's background."

-- Elisa the Bunny Stik

"Your alter-ego is a mysterious authorized secondary account consumed with maniacal plans of site-wide revolution."

-- The WDC Ninja

"You know your addicted when rate your last lover1.0-5.0 and go on to tell him how to improve."

-- Ida_Matilda_Wright Help

"You spend extra upgrading your cell phone and wireless plan so you can access WDC from your pocket, anywhere."

-- Fivesixer

"You use WDC in a sentence like a verb."

-- Fivesixer

"When you start having withdrawal symptoms after being away from the site for a few days."

-- *~* Pens Thanks Anonymous *~*

"When you actually spend the time to read "You know you're addicted" lists."

-- TSC