(Originally posted March 5, 2015.)

Edgar Allan Poe Ale Poem

As I lay here resting and nursing whatever this malady is, I have been answering comments and thinking.  (Add-on: I really do get sick a lot.) One thing my mind wandered off to was the various stereotypes about authors.  We drink, we’re eccentric, we’re sensitive, we’re aloof, etc.  Then my mind wandered to humor and that April 1st is a month away.  I’m not a prankster though, so I have to make people laugh differently.

This is going to be simple.  List an author stereotype in the comments and I’ll use it to make a fun, cheeky post on April 1st.  Honestly, the two have very little to do with each other, but that’s the first open day I have on my schedule.

So, what strange things have you heard people say about authors?

Add-On: The first time I made this post, people listed the following:

• Authors make a lot of money.
• Authors make no money.
• Live on coffee.
• Everyone an author meets is turned into a book character.
• Authors are wasting their time.
• Authors are alcoholics.
• Author brains are wired differently.  (We’re nuts.)
• Authors are lonely introverts.
• Authors publish and sit back to do nothing for promotions.
• Master procrastinators.
• Can only write when isolated.
• Messy, gross, and sleep-deprived.
• Anti-social, rude, zones out, and asks personal questions.

So, I wonder if anything has changed.