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Fiction

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

11. As someone who has never smoked,

Reply to fadedrose (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:18 AM

Dec 2012

and someone who is trying to be a writer, none of my characters smoke. It's distantly possible that I'll have a smoker or two off in the distance, but not very likely.

I also never have owned guns, and I'm not writing mysteries, so guns won't be in my stories either.

I do occasionally throw in someone who knits.

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In practically all the fiction books I read.... [View all] fadedrose Dec 2012 OP

Social stigma? krispos42 Dec 2012 #1

They'd have to think of more inventive ways to kill... fadedrose Dec 2012 #2

I don't know that it is a fear of the NRA Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #3

I never thought about POI in that way but it's great example... Little Star Dec 2012 #5

A lot of the foreign crime dramas work without recourse to guns Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2012 #6

That's very interesting. Thanks Lydia. Little Star Dec 2012 #7

I think you have a good point.... Little Star Dec 2012 #4

I do believe you are on to something. Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #8

That place (the gungeon) is too scary for me. I don't think I ever.. Little Star Dec 2012 #9

LOL, I have never been there either Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #10

As someone who has never smoked, SheilaT Dec 2012 #11

Oh dear fadedrose Dec 2012 #12

Why nothing I ever write will SheilaT Dec 2012 #13

Don't look now....knitting needles are a threat ;) fadedrose Dec 2012 #14