You Don’t Look Like An Author

Many, many years ago, thirty odd years in fact I met a woman at a writing class. We have been friends ever since our meeting then. It was a little while after that meeting that she said to me. “You know, David, when we first met you didn’t strike me as being an author as you didn’t look like one to me.” I’ve joked about it with her ever since. Because what does a writer look like? Is there some set format in everyone’s eyes of what a writer is suppose to look like? If someone knows could they please tell me, then I’ll change my image and start looking like one. 27 February 2008