How to spot a writer

The New Yorker's Mia Mercado asks: What Is Writing and Does This Count as It?

Writing is when you sitfingertips hovering over your keyboard, cursor blinking on a fresh blank documentand open Twitter for the twenty-eighth time.

You can tell that someone is a writer because shell have a pencil behind her ear, a Moleskine notebook in her hand, a pen behind her other ear, coffee on her breath and shirt, eyes that beg for your approval, and a Sharpie shes somehow hidden in her hair.

I have only one laptop sticker, and am therefore not truly a writer. Read the rest