How Do You Write a Snore?

jessicamb · Oct 22, 2008

Hi! I'm working on a picture book manuscript with a lot of onomatopoeias. I want to have a snore sound, but am having trouble thinking of a way to write so it actually sounds like a snore. Do any of you have any ideas?

I tried listening to some snoring, and the closest I could come up with is huggggh but I don't know if that's recognizable as a snore.

Thanks,
Jessica

Madisonwrites · Oct 22, 2008

I've always seen it with Z's like: zzzZZZ or something like that. Don't know if that helps or not. :Shrug:

MsJudy · Oct 22, 2008

i've seen it with lots of consonants strung together:

snrkx or some such...

poetinahat · Oct 22, 2008

Dagwood's snore used to be something like SKNX-X-X-X

I once saw this portrayal, which I thought was clever: A thought balloon with a log being sawn... then the end of the log dropping off and klunking the sleeper's noggin to show a sudden awakening

jessicamb · Oct 23, 2008

Thanks for all your responses. I had completely forgotten about zzzzz. I'm wondering I if I should use zzzzz in my manuscript since it's clearly recognizable about a snore and then, in the event that it gets accepted somewhere and therefore illustrated, change the text to something more colorful.

Ol' Big 'Ead · Oct 24, 2008

How could you forget about the Zeds, man? Although, for a bit of comedy could you try something like:

"ZZZ-Zzzz-ZZzzz-hngGGggh-Ppbhww- zZZzzzZZ . . ."

stormie · Oct 24, 2008

^For a kid's book, I like that! And the kids would laugh trying to imitate that sound.

How Do You Write a Snore?

jessicamb

Madisonwrites

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