Caveat: fork in a toaster

[broken link! FIXME] Images I've been watching some episodes of the "crime-procedural" TV series Bones.  Some of the episodes are pretty well written, atlhough it's inconsistent.  But there was a great line.  The main eponymous character, nicknamed "Bones," writes novels as a sideline to her work in forensic anthropology.  In a season one episode, she gets caught working on a novel by a coworker, Hodgins.  Dialogue:

Hodgins: "I recognize that look."
Bones: "What?"
Hodgins: "You're writing another book!  When you write, you get this stunned look on your face, like you stuck a fork in a toaster.  Am I in this one too?"
Bones: "You weren't in the last one."

I had to pause the video and laugh at this.  I love how this captures what happens to people who try to write.  That it's not, in fact, a particularly pleasant experience, but that, like sticking a fork in a toaster, it's an unthought-out, impulsive exercise with unexpected consequences.

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