Hard-Boiled Smoking

[monk222]

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When I am writing, I sometimes wish that I kept my smoking habit. I imagine it might help with the affectation to maintain the hard-boiled voice of my noir protagonists. Like living that stereotype a little more closely might help. Something about drawing that sweetly foul taste in my mouth and expelling the grey clouds of smoke around me. Exercising that fatal habit would bring out the droll callousness.

But it does foul up the teeth and tastebuds. And stinks up the place. There is also no smoking in the house anymore. Even mother would complain about having to go outside in the cold to get her nic fix. No smoking. It's a good policy. Even if it's not very hard-boiled and dangerous.

I will just have to rely on the influence of my noir reading to put me in the mood.

xXx

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Noir reading is certainly healthier. One of the things about working with a bunch of health researchers is that you get to understand in exhaustive detail exactly what smoking does to people; I could reel off a whole list of unpleasant and generally fatal diseases which smokers are several times more likely to get than non-smokers.

Actually, that's pretty grim reading in itself; you might enjoy it. :-)

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

LOL Without a femme fatale, no way! :p

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

But it is so cool! ;)