En Garde!

Avant Garde fashion is all about making a statement. Whenever I think avant garde, I immediately go to Sarah Jessica Parker who always is wearing something crazy, in both real life and in her role as Carrie Bradshaw on Sex in the City. Just take a look at this Alexander McQueen gown and hat SJP wore to the Sex in the City: The Movie premiere.
It's kinda crazy, isn't it?

But this is what she's known for. And her personality allows it to work.

Experimental writing is meant to give this same kind of shock value. A writer's voice and a good hook allows a reader to accept unconventional methods. If McQueen (RIP) wasn't so technically strong, the fashion world would never accept that hat. Writers like Chuck Palahniuk, T.S. Eliot, and William S. Burroughs broke the rules and wrote stories and poems that challenged the establishment.

If these writers had been asked to write a "normal" text, I'm sure that they could blow us out of the water. The fact that they can do that so well, allows them to break the rules that they know inside and out and literally make us do a double take. We as writers have to learn the rules in order to break them. Alexander McQueen did it with his clothes. Now it is our turn to do it with our writing.

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