1 What They Don’t Tell You About Dating a Writer

They don’t tell you

How much you’ll want them to be in love so you can give them the chance of writing the story that will change everything

How you pray to God daily for the strength to be good

How you fear making mistakes that leave scars, always wondering which antagonist will be modeled after you

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They don’t tell you

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How badly you’ll want to be the king of their story

How you’ll scan every word, every letter, focused on the italics and the bolds,

Trying to analyze what they say

Trying to find the parts of their life that they snuck in

Trying to find the parts of you they snuck in

Cause you’ve heard

That writers always put a part of themselves in their work

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They don’t tell you

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That falling in love with a writer is falling in love with

All the words of the alphabet

Memorizing the rules of the letters

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Each time you take the cover off

Each time you flick the page

Each time you fold the edge to hold your place