I don't normally write scenes or stories specifically about someone ending up in quicksand. I do however sneak quicksand and mud into my works, which I guess you guys can call an "easter egg" for the community. Maybe it's my passive/aggressive way of getting it out there without the general public knowing.
Because it's in context with the rest of...whatever story I'm writing, it usually has a bearing on the plot, and has the character dressed in appropriate clothing for the time/place, and their occupation. I'm currently writing a Civil War novel that has a couple scenes involving the main characters riding their horses through thick mud, references to wagons and cannons getting stuck, and a quicksand scene later in the book. It involves a young woman who has dressed as a man in the last months of the war. In a scene that is a bit of an homage to "The Dawns Here Are quiet, the young lady soldier, dressed in a ragged confederate uniform tries to cross a boggy area, churned up by a combination of torrential rainfall and long, intense battle. She gets stuck in deep mud in an old mostly collapsed trench, and after a scene of struggling, she goes under.
I kind of like seeing women "breaking the rules" of proper dress and behavior for their time period, bad girls of their day. Think old west outlaw girls, women acting as spies, bootlegger flapper girls, Joan of Arc-esque warrior women, etc. For modern scenes, biker chicks, goth girls, and women soldiers suffice just fine.
