Authors' Clothing

The published word becomes legacy. Only those of us with the strongest of constitutions may endure having the skirts of our written words lifted to scrutiny. Fiction clothes the author much like a woman dressed in floor-length skirts, long sleeves, gloves and shrouded veil. Who is she? What is she hiding (what's under there?)? Indeed, what does this very mode of dress reveal about her identity, her soul?

Then there are written words expressed as personal essay, memoir, biography, opinion and other such non-fiction. These present the author much like a woman scantily-clad in lace and sheer finery while standing in a public square. These words reveal who you are - shape, color, size and imperfections.

Creative writers must have the choice to clothe their imaginings as fiction, fantasy or fable. They may also choose to openly paint a picture of themselves through factual renderings or even through poetry.

Great imagination is akin to brilliance. It is brilliance when an author can unashamedly bastardize, mutilate, copulate, terrorize, dehumanize and/or in other ways offend those who would, as stupefied, read on. It is also brilliance when an author can inspire, encourage, titillate, captivate, heal and/or humor those who would, with curiousity, read on.

All actions and emotions can be revealed or explored under the guise of fiction, in the accounting of historical facts, in poetry - lofty or limerick, or in fantasy and fable.