David Given Schwarm

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 colors 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 workmen’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.