Mines a person with highly magnified specs and drinks a lot of coffee
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And if you don't get my question, it's how do you picture an authorWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Like Arthur Miller (and he was married to Marilyn Monroe)! Just kidding!. Actually, I never picture an ideal author!. I just think about the specific author that wrote the book!. If I don't know how he/she looks like, I imagine them all differently according to the types of book they wrote, the time period they came from, and the stories I've heard about them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I picture an middle aged woman who wears outdated clothes and doesn't brush her hair very well, eats a lot of junk food, doesn't clean up after herself, stays up at night and sleeps during the day, and lives in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere with a cat!. This picture is mostly due to the fact that I met a woman like this at an impressionable age!. Funny thing is, I'm an aspiring author who is half finished with a book and I don't fit my vision!. I am a teen girl who goes to school and leads an ordinary life!. I do fit the shy and not very organized stereotype, though!. PS> I hate coffee!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My stereotypical author!.!.!.a woman in her mid thirties, with light brown chin-length hair, a pen behind one ear, wearing casual clothes and thick-rimmed glasses, sitting in front of a laptop in a small messy room, typing away with a cup of coffee by her side!. That will totally be me in twenty-some years!. Minus the coffee!. I dislike coffee!. ??Www@QuestionHome@Com There's no such thing as a stereotypical author, any more than there is a stereotypical reader!. Authors come in all shapes, sizes and colors!. As do readers!. I'm an author, don't have highly magnified specs and don't drink a lot of coffee!. But my publisher doesn't seem to mind - he just keeps selling my books anyway!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I picture someone with glasses, messy hair- unshaved (for a guy), messy make up for a woman!.!.!. drinking coffee, or stopping for tea, doing drugs often, or smoking a cigarette to clear their minds!. I'm not sure, I'm picturing them during the writing process, not while they're going out!.!.!. or anything!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I imagine an author as a woman sitting at a desk or table!. Her laptop in is front of her, her hair is in a bun, and her glasses are on!. There are bags under her eyes!. And of course, she is sipping her coffee while reading the last couple of paragraphs she wrote!. I wish that was me haha!. :]Www@QuestionHome@Com A slightly over-weight person who wears a sweatshirt, sweat pants, and fuzzy socks, no makeup, and sits in a comfortable recliner with their laptop in their lap and doing everything to avoid writing their story!.Www@QuestionHome@Com all the writers i know live in thier pj's, drink far too much coffee and alcohol, smell faintly of horses and BO and exist on diet of super noodles and salt and vingear macoys!. generally we swear alot and have ocd, and will do anything to avoid writing!. lolWww@QuestionHome@Com Slim, lanky, nerdy sort of man!. Ruffled plaid shirt, short brown hair, thick plastic watch Coffee, laptop and pencil behind the ear!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Ones that look like librarians with shrill voices!. I usually picture them in outdated clothes and with lots of pets!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Hm, a person with a ponytail and has tons of cats!.!.!.don't know why, but that's how I picture 'em!.Www@QuestionHome@Com English teacher trying to get a novel published!. Lawyer comes out of the blue with a great story!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |