How to write sound effects
From Life Of Pi, by Yann Martel, page 166, the end of chapter 57:
"TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE!"
You'd be blowing that whistle loud too, if you were stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger.
This book won the Man Booker Prize and other awards, is widely read in groups, was chosen by Arizona for it's library book of the year to read, etc.
I'm reading it to discuss with a group, having abandoned it on page 50 of a previous read.
While I'm at it, Martel uses bulleted lists (see the page after the above reference for one of several examples), italicized passages, ALL CAPS for people yelling at the circus, or sound effects.
This is a serious book. I betch we could rely on ol' S. King to have used a few sound effects words. No time to look it up.
The trick with all writing craft is to be judicious, to know how and why, and make it move the story along.
In the middle of nowhere, on a silent ocean with a tiger glaring at me, only "TREEEEEE!" works, imho. If the char said, "I blew the whistle with all my might..." the effect would be less.