We’re all enthusiastic writers, right? Is it possible to write too much?
Science says yes! But how can you tell when do cross the line and write too much?
Luckily, symptoms of this deliriously delicious disease are just below. There’s space down the bottom for your contributions, too, so if you aren’t a terminal case of Ultra-Scrittura, then please let me know what other ways you can identify when you’re writing too much.

Now, the list!

1.Your pre-leaving-house check goes keys, wallet, notebook, pen…..
2….spare notebook, spare pen, mobile…
3.You carry scrap paper in your wallet in case the notebooks fill up.
4.You get your friends to carry notebooks with them.
5.You buy stationery wholesale.
6.You have Officeworks on speed-dial.
7.You have iPhone applications for a thesaurus and dictionary on the home screen.
8.You downloaded Wikipedia so you have a reference system for when you’re offline.
9.Your friends have to coax you out of your house with proof copies.
10.When planning your day, you mentally divide it into chapters.
11.You get a new USB keyboard every Christmas, having worn the last one out.
12.Your ‘writing chair’ has its own personalised butt-groove.
13.You have an index file of unused romantic poetry to woo cute guys/girls with.
14.You’ve published correspondence from old relationships
15.You have a toilet-notebook.
16.You have a bathtub-notebook.
17.You have a camera full of photos of your shower screen where you’ve scribbled thoughts.
18.Your desktop is shots from Library Porn.
19.You haven’t given a present you didn’t write yourself in years…
20.And people like getting stories from you.
21.You’ve bribed your agent.
22.You’ve had coffee with your editor.
23.You’ve got drunk with your editor.
24.You’ve slept with your editor.
25.Your writing hand got carpal tunnel…
26.So you learnt to write with your off hand.
27.Your off hand got carpal tunnel…
28.So you bought a pair of +1 Gauntlets and kept writing….
29.Your Gauntlets wore out….
30.So you learn to write with your toes.
31.Your toes now have Carpal Tunnel.
32.You’ve started to get a tan from writing on your arm too much.
33.You can brush your teeth and write at the same time.
34.You can floss and write at the same time.
35.You use the ‘random page’ function in Wikipedia for story topics.
36.You go to a random page… And you’ve already written about it.
37.You’re an editor for Project Gutenberg.
38.You keep track of mundane conversations you have during the day to refer to later.
39.You transcribe mundane conversations you have during the day to refer to later.
40.You’ve busked reading your own work aloud
41.You’ve made money busking.
42.You’ve scored a book contract whilst busking.
43.You spend all your non-writing time researching things to write about.
44.To write with more accurately…
45.You travel to another city.
46.You travel to another country.
47.You take up smoking.
48.You learn another language.
49.You learn how to fence.
50.You learn how to shoot.
51.You learn how to fly a helicopter.
52.You become a secret agent.
53.You investigate a murder.
54.You develop superpowers.
55.You fulfil a prophecy.
56.You’ve had someone email you about your writing…
57.And it wasn’t your mum..
58.You’ve had a hundred fan emails.
59.You have unanswered fan mail.
60.You’ve had someone accuse you of stealing their idea.
61.You’ve had someone suggest a plot for you to write about.
62.You’ve turned them down, because you’ve already written about it.
63.You get a shelf of your own in a bookstore.
64.You’ve been recognised on the street from your author pic.
65.Someone introduces you to a stranger at a party as ‘a writer’.
66.Someone introduces you to a stranger at a party as ‘the writer’.
67.The person you get introduced to asks you to sign their book.
68.You’ve had a baby named after one of your characters.
69.You’ve had someone change their name to one of your characters.
70.A band has done a concept album based on your work…
71.And you’re not a member.
72.Your work has had fan-fics written.
73.Your work has had erotic fan-fics written.
74.You’ve read it.
75.It’s good.
76.Pirated copies of your books can be found on street stalls.
77.Your work has been published as an audiobook…
78.Tony Robinson narrates it.
79.Your vocabulary is full of words you’ve never pronounced.
80.You put your characters in unusual situations specifically to use those words.
81.You have a list of words to sneak into your books to enrage pedants.
82.You write responses to your rejection letters….
83.That don’t have dirty words in them.
84.Your responses to rejection letters have footnotes and a bibliography.
85.The response you wrote to your rejection letter gets published instead of the original manuscript.
86.You require more than the maximum allowed characters for every Facebook status update.
87.You’re the reason Twitter posts have a maximum length.
88.The settings of your books have a Wiki.
89.People have gone to conventions dressed as your characters.
90.People trade rumours about when your next book is coming out.
91.You can spot a rejection letter in its envelope from 20 paces.
92.You have scars from a desperate combination of inspiration, a handy knife, and a dearth of writing implements.
93.You have a writing soundtrack…
94.That your neighbours can sing along to.
95.You’ve experimented with polyphasic sleep to try and fit more writing in.
96.You lose track of how many writing projects you have going.
97.You lose track of how many stories you’ve had published.
98.You lose track of how many writing awards you’ve won.
99.You’ve sent a reviewer chocolates.
100.You’ve sent a reviewer death threats.
101.You’ve punched a reviewer….
102.Before the reviewer saw your book.
103.And you still got a good review.
104.www.write-thing.com is your home page.