Would you date a writer?
Date a girl who writes.
Kiss her under the lamp post, when it's raining. Tell her your definition of love.
Find a girl who writes. You'll know that she has a sense of humor, a sense of empathy and kindness, and that she will dream up worlds, universes for you. You see that girl hunched over a notebook. That's the writer. With her fingers occasionally smudged with charcoal, with ink that will travel onto your hands when you interlock your fingers with her's. She will never stop, churning out adventures, of traitors and heroes. Darkness and light. Fear and love. That's the writer. She can never resist filling a blank page with words, whatever the color of the page is.
Use a pick-up line with her if she doesn't look to busy.
It is hard to date a girl who writes. But be patient with her. Give her the gift of words, for writers are talkative people, and they are verbose in their thanks. Let her know that you're behind her every step of the way, for the lines between fiction and reality are fluid.
She'll give you a chance.
Don't lie to her. She'll understand the syntax behind your words. She'll be disappointed by your lies, but a girl who writes will understand. She'll understand that sometimes even the greatest heroes fail, and that happy endings take time, both in fiction and reality. A girl who writes isn't impatient; she will understand your flaws. She will cherish them, because a girl who writes will understand plot. She'll understand that endings happen for better or for worst.
A girl who writes will not expect perfection from you. Her narratives are rich, her characters are multifaceted because of interesting flaws. She'll understand that a good book does not have perfect characters; villains and tragic flaws are the salt of books. She'll understand trouble, because it spices up her story. No author wants an invincible hero; the girl who writes will understand that you are only human.
Be her compatriot, be her darling, her love, her dream, her world.
And when she has to kill off a lovely character, when she cries, hold her and tell her that it will be alright.
You will smile hard as she talks a mile a second, and your heart will skip a beat when she holds your hand and she will write stories of your lives together. She's lovely, remember that. Her names for the children might be terrible, but you'll be okay with that. A girl who writes will tell your children fantastical stories.
Because that is the best part about a girl who writes. She has imagination and she has courage, and it will be enough. She'll save you in the oceans of her dreams, and she'll be your 11:11. She'll be your fire bird and she'll be your knight, and she'll become your world, in the curve of her smile, in the color of her eye, the marks on her face, the words that are pouring out of her, a torrent, a wave, a crescendo - so many sensations that you will be left breathless by a girl who writes.
Date a girl who writes because you deserve it.
A girl who writes will understand reality. She'll be infuriating at times, and maybe sometimes you will hate her. Sometimes she will hate you too. But a girl who writes understands human nature, and won't leave on the Midnight Train the first moment that things go sour. She will understand that real life isn't like a story, because while she works in stories, she lives in reality.
Date a girl who writes.
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Don't fall in love with someone who loves words, who can twist and twirl them, weave and spin them, and create poetry in your name. Don't you dare see yourself in the spirals of their verses and mistake them for your DNA. Please don't fall in love with bright green eyes and freckles cheeks which glow when you look them in the eyes. Don't listen to them when they tell you that you're everything to them, that you make them a better person. Don't let the hope that dangles from their eyelashes like the tears you will both cry allow you to morph into the person you think they think you are.
Because you'll forget yourself, get lost in their words and when you do that, you'll be left, broken shards lying on the floor once again. They'll be left alone, without a muse for their words to dance for, shattered without their anchor to reality, the person you once were.
Both of you, once mighty and strong will be left, fragile broken things by your own love. Please. Don't fall in love with a writer, a poet.
Don't fall in love with someone like me.
