[ WP ] Write about something that is disgusting or ugly in such a way that it becomes something beautiful -- without using the 'beautiful inside ' cliche .

Writers are like oysters. 
 
 Consider this: a writer writes a story like an oyster makes a pearl - takes an irritating bit and wraps it, layer by layer, in iridescent secretions. 
 
 That is the act of writing a story - of taking some sharp-edged memory and *wrapping* it, smoothing it out and making it easier to live with. It's still there, but it does n't hurt so bad anymore. 
 
 When we bear ourselves to readers, it's like being shucked open for all the world to admire those pearls - tender lips pushed aside to reveal the glow within. The beauty of it, of course, is entirely accidental; we were just trying to stay alive.
