Life imitates art

[ksmith]

Write scene in which protag has a peanut butter and jam sandwich and a glass of milk.

Ponder evening snack. Find oneself craving a peanut butter and jam sandwich and a glass of milk. Takes same.

I also yawn when I write about a character yawning. I yawn when I think about writing about a character yawning.

I yawn when I think about yawning.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

I learned to run because my protagonist was a runner.

It never ends ...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Don't write about a skydiver.

[janni.livejournal.com]

But if the book needed it ... (But, since I didn't go out and pet a polar bear for the current book, I guess I know where to draw the line.)

One of the next-book possibilities involves fencing, archery, and horseback riding. I could totally live with that. :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I took aikido when I was writing the Jani books. Wanted to learn how to fall, what it felt like to hit and get hit.

[janni.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a pretty good reason to try a martial art. Hmm ...

aikido

[elmunadi.livejournal.com]

Do you recall what dojo you went to? (was it one of Toyoda-san's ?)

(I got back into Aikido after a 25 year lapse because my joints were hurting - now they don't, except when I'm Uke for a joint technique.)

Re: aikido

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I took the class at a local community college. I could have joined a dojo if I had wanted to go on, but my knees couldn't take the pounding.