A point to ponder

[ksmith]

When I write about my characters yawning, I start yawning as well. When I read a scene in which they yawn, I yawn, too.

Even writing about yawning itself...

::yawn::

Comments

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

*yawn*

Yeah.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I just yawned.

I think we both know who's to blame.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

::hums tunelessly::

::stares at ceiling::

::yawns::

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

A yawn is quite catching, you see, like a cough; it takes just one yawn to start other yawns off.

Ah, Dr. Suess, you never put me to sleep.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Ah, Dr. Suess, you never put me to sleep.

You do, however...oh, never mind.

::yawn::

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

:-p

You probably never had the opportunity to read Dr. Suess's Sleep Book, about the disastrous contagious effects of a yawn, over and over and over again.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

You know, that comment of mine came out completely wrong, but I was too tired to fix it.

You do not make me yawn, Charlie.

I confess that my exposure to the good Dr. was sadly limited. The Grinch. Green Eggs and Ham. The Cat in the Hat.

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

Oh! And as long as the same thing doesn't happen when you write about your characters killing somebody....

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I beg your pardon...?

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

I just wondered if it worked for more than yawns, which could be pretty dangerous...

"When I write about my characters killing people, I start killing people as well. When I read a scene in which they kill, I kill, too."

But I like Kate's wanting sex example a lot better.

Perhaps this is why so many writers write about other writers, figuring if their writers are writing, they'll write too.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Didn't Stephen King write a book on that very thing?

The 'killing people' thing, not the sex thing.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

And the reply for that came out badly because I was trying to point out my Homer as Chainsaw Killer icon without seeming to do so.

Lucky I finally packed it in and went to sleep.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

My spouse has been out of the country (for work) now for five weeks. Suddenly everyone in my current WIP wants sex.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

...and a week after he gets home, they're all going to want to smoke cigarettes.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Ha! That, or they'll have fallen asleep.