how do you write sounds

I've always wondered like footsteps so the person reading can actually hear them I'e always admired writers who can do that

 

...onomatopeoia?

 

oh dear god yes

 

yeah... but I always thought that was regarded towards more poetic forms...

Though, I never questioned onomatopoeia, so I don't know, oddly. I never really asked of the term for writing sounds when it came to prose and I remember mostly going over onomatopoeia during poetry.

Walt Whitman is one of my favorites.

 

moo

 

bah

 

neeeigh

 

Ima gonna thpank you thilly

 

HAHA! who said that

 

I said it first while talking to Alex... I asked Alex "Have you been smoking those marijuana cigarettes again " and he made a sad face then I was like "IMA GONNA THPANK YOU THILLY!!!"

 

and that, children, is the story of the thpank