Want to get someone’s attention subconciously, want to get on someone’s nerves? You need to annoy them, and here is how you can do it.
1) Crack your knuckles/toes. Cracking your knuckles is easier and more common, but if you can crack your toes, that really gets their spine tingling. Not only is it not common, it sounds louder and more painful.
2) Bite your nails. Just the sound of that can drive some people insane.
3) Keep staring at a certain part of someone’s body. For instance, pretend you see a giant zit on someone’s cheek and keep staring at it to the point where they need to move away.
4) Be sloppy. Untuck your shirt halfway, have a milk mustache, and have long fingernails (if you’re a guy) all at the same time.
5) Last but not least, Talk! Talk about anything and everything. See an ant, talk about it. It must be touch for ants, huh? Is that a tree? What a nice tree. You’re nice; why are you so nice, it’s amazing! You know what’s amazing? Magicians. It’s not real magic though. It looks like it though, but it’s just tricks. Like in the song, you know, sing with me. “It’s tricky! It’s tricky!”. What you don’t like singing? It’s good for the heart….and so on.
Want to get someone’s attention subconciously, want to get on someone’s nerves? You need to annoy them, and here is how you can do it.
1) Crack your knuckles/toes. Cracking your knuckles is easier and more common, but if you can crack your toes, that really gets their spine tingling. Not only is it not common, it sounds louder and more painful.
2) Bite your nails. Just the sound of that can drive some people insane.
3) Keep staring at a certain part of someone’s body. For instance, pretend you see a giant zit on someone’s cheek and keep staring at it to the point where they need to move away.
4) Be sloppy. Untuck your shirt halfway, have a milk mustache, and have long fingernails (if you’re a guy) all at the same time.
5) Last but not least, Talk! Talk about anything and everything. See an ant, talk about it. It must be touch for ants, huh? Is that a tree? What a nice tree. You’re nice; why are you so nice, it’s amazing! You know what’s amazing? Magicians. It’s not real magic though. It looks like it though, but it’s just tricks. Like in the song, you know, sing with me. “It’s tricky! It’s tricky!”. What you don’t like singing? It’s good for the heart….and so on.
So in addition to being a writer, I also review books for the Oregonian. I review mysteries, thrillers, literary fiction, and YA with some kind of Northwest connection. I get all kinds of books sent to me by publishers, some that fit and some that don't. Once I got a Canadian textbook for a communications class! One of the perks of doing this is I get to suggest books to the editor (Full disclosure: I'll post more about that later.) So I suggested this book and the review ran on Sunday. Interestingly, in the acknowledgements, the author says after he finished the book he hired some people enrolled in a writing MFA program to work with him on making it better.
The result is pretty good!
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