Being a writer means you are inducted into this special program where you get to use this special language and euphemisms to sound really dedicated to your craft, and of course, smart. Once you’ve announced that you are a writer, everyone will want to know the status of your current projects and what you do the entire day. The life of a writer makes people highly inquisitive and while they are in awe of your chosen career, they may not know the everyday hurdles a writer faces. And so, as a writer, you have no choice but to answer their curious questions with enigmatic replies. If you’re not a writer and want to decipher what a writer is actually trying to say, here’s some helpful phrases: 1) What Writers say: "I'm brainstorming." What they mean: "I'm staring at the wall and hoping for divine intervention." It’s not easy being a writer and coming up with ideas all the time. There are good ones and extremely useless ones, and more often than not, writers ...