Pep Card: Day 17

[age.livejournal.com]

Pep Card: Day 17

The Billboard Liberation Front is a group of pranksters who monkey with high-profile billboards posted around the San Francisco Bay Area. The BLF's intricate changes to the signs, done in fonts and colours identical to the ads they're altering, often take place in broad daylight, yet the group is rarely caught. The secret: Members wear bright orange vests and workman's clothes. The lesson here: If you dress the part, you can get away with anything. Whenever I'm feeling like a writing fraud, I get out my novelist costume and find it always lifts my mood.

Today, try putting together your own novelist ensemble, and see what wonders it works for your writing mood.

Day 17 flashcard from the No Plot? No Problem! writing kit, the genius brainchild of Chris Baty.


Any CosPlay folks out there wanna share tips/give the rest of us some pointers?

:D

Comments

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Writer costume:

Go to dollar store or other emporium of cheap goods. Buy those magic stretch gloves which look like they were knitted for teeny people. Take home, cut off fingers of gloves at point where they are just below first knuckle. (Keeps hands and wrists warm while allowing you to touch type, conjures writer in garret air)

Tweed jacket. Leather patches on elbows optional. Can be slung over back of nearby chair as if you were likely to rise and go for a brisk walk with Papa Hemingway at any moment. Substitute a disreputable cap if no tweed jacket.

Teacup and saucer. Mismatched patterns are fine. Bottle of whiskey in desk drawer optional.

[age.livejournal.com]

...That's awesome. I'm so tempted to go out and do that now, on the first day that I have free time.

Thrift Store, here I come!

And major mad props to those that actually do go out for walks in the outfit!

[wayzgoose.livejournal.com]

I was at a writer's conference last July wearing a linen suit and a Panama hat. An agent came directly up to me and said, "Don't tell me... You're writing a noir mystery." Gave me a perfect lead-in for my pitch.