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If you ask a writer what they're thinking, then prepare to be disturbed

12/3/2012

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I found this cute little comic and totally laughed out loud when I read it, because for a writer, this hits close to home. I can't tell you how many times my husband has looked over at me, while I've been silently lost in thought, and asked what I'm thinking:

"You have a weird look on your face. What's going on inside your head?"

And more than several times I've shocked him with my answer:

"I'm wondering if you were to shove a six inch knife up through someone's chin could it penetrate the roof of their mouth and how hard would you have to shove it to make it stick?"

It's at this point where he simply nods and removes himself from the room.

The scary thing is that these thoughts then lead me to do research on my computer: What's it like to skin a rabbit? When was blood transfusions invented? If a veterinarian had to cut off a human arm, do they have the tools and medicine (and skills) to do it? How deadly is one stick of dynamite? Can it blow off someone's legs? How much pressure do you need to apply to a person's windpipe to knock them out without killing them? How much pressure to kill them? What kind of poisons are deadly but undetectable in food and in blood tests?

So yeah, should some crime happen in my vacinity and I'm looked at as a possible suspect, regardless of my innocence, I'm totally going to jail. "But I'm an AUTHOR, your Honor! I only kill fictional people, I swear! Ignore the blood and guts research on my laptop. Those pictures of raw brains mean NOTHING!" Yep, I'm going to jail. If you ask me what I'm thinking, be prepared to be slightly disturbed (I know other writers who's thoughts are way worse *shudders*).

Are you one of those writers? :)

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J E Fritz link
12/3/2012 08:42:03 am

Yes, I'm that little duck. Methods of murder, gruesome deaths, probably some other equally disturbing things that could be used against me in a court of law (if anyone ever saw my internet history...)

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Angela Scott link
12/3/2012 11:11:06 pm

In jail, we can be writing buddies :)

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TJ Hollingsworth
12/3/2012 12:34:11 pm

Typical writing day at my house;

Kid3: Mommy's playing with her dagger again.
Kid1: Yeah, she's plotting.
Kid3: What's she plotting?
Kid1: Someone's murder.
Kid3: Not Daddy?
Kid2: Not yet,LOL.
Kid1: She's writing a new scene, leave her alone for now.
Kid3: Who's cooking dinner?
Kid2: Me.
Kid3: Does this mean we can have potato chips and ice cream for dinner?
Kid2: Yup.
Me: (My kids are whispering again. Think they're plotting against me.) *hides dagger* *deletes internet history of unsolved murders in ancient Britain* "WHO WANTS PIZZA?"

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Angela Scott link
12/3/2012 11:12:07 pm

Awesome! Pizza is my go to meal, too. With a pizza place close by, it makes it almost too easy.

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TJ Hollingsworth
12/4/2012 05:28:04 am

Hehehe.
I try to keep stuff on hand that's easy so that they don't take my wallet and order everything off the take-out menu,LOL.

Sylvia van Bruggen link
12/3/2012 03:00:26 pm

Oh gosh, I so recognize that :D
When my husband asks me, "What are you thinking about?" I always ask, "Do you really want to know?" because if he says yes, he could go knee-deep into "oh gods this character, I want to kill him in a lot of ways!"-chat XD

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Angela Scott link
12/3/2012 11:13:16 pm

My husband and I have gotten to that point as well. He asks and I just give him a look and he'll say never mind.

It's better that way :)

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E.B. Black link
12/25/2012 11:41:04 pm

I am definitely one of these kinds of writers. LOL. I've researched things like "How to best store blood" and "What does it smell like when you light someone's skin on fire?" XD But it was all to better describe scenes in my stories.

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AL Fetherlin link
12/25/2012 11:51:58 pm

I had to start lying to my co-workers when I was a teacher. They'd ask me during lunch or free period and not all of them appreciated my sense of humor. :)
My history often includes exorcism, poisons, skinning, child abuse and average prison sentences per state. Not exactly something most people enjoy me sharing.

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Destiny link
3/13/2013 10:10:55 am

Very Useful information, this is both good reading for, have quite a few good key points and I learn some new stuff from it too.

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