Writers: Would you ever consider including emoticons in your writing?

[Katy Rag Doll]

I think that it would take a very intelligent and talented writer to get away with using emoticons. Picasso was perfectly capable of painting realistic still lives, but after a while he chose to experiment. I think if a person used emoticons they would have to have mastered creating emotion through more traditional prose first.

I'm open to experimentation but I don't think that I would like to have emoticons in a story of mine, unless it was in an IM conversation or something, which so far I've never included in my work.

I know you're not asking for opinions on your idea, but it does seem interesting. You've obviously thought a lot about this and that's the kind of mind set that I think could pull it off. Interesting question