The Naked Truth About Writing

I know ya'll are gonna think I'm pulling your legs, but Ifirst question was,
swear on a stack of BTO CDs that I received the"Have you ever written anything while in the nude?"
following email just a couple of days ago....The answer to that is an unequivocal NO! I write in an
Ed,old wood chair, and most of the time it's a cold wood
I just wanted to drop you a quick note and tell youchair. Make that a very cold wood chair. There's a
how much I enjoy reading your various writings. I getbetter chance of me writing in a pink tu-tu than there is
"Free Wheelin'" in my local paper, and after readingof me writing naked.
some of your columns I went and purchased your firstThe next, and thankfully last one,
book. I'm also pleased to learn that you have a second"If not, would you consider it if you felt it would help
one that's just out. Congratulations on your writingyour creativity?
successes.NO! Being naked, cold, and embarrassed would not
My name is Peggy, and I live in Tampa, Florida. To behelp my creativity in the least.
more precise, I live in a nudist resort just outside ofYou know, stuff like this makes me wonder what's the
Tampa called "Eye Full City." I find the lifestyle to beworld coming to? Why's there all this hoopla about
exhilarating, and I actually find that it stimulates mybeing naked in public places? Last night, they had
creativity. My hobby is painting landscapes, and Isomeone on Entertainment Tonight who's starting a
always do my best work when my mind is free ofnude airline! I kid you not! You buy a ticket to fly
stress and my body is free of clothing.somewhere with them, and as soon as the plane is in
I was wondering if the same thing might be true ofthe sky and the pilot turns off the "fasten seatbelt"
writing. Have you ever written anything while in thesign, you're free to drop your drawers! Can you
nude? If not, would you consider doing it if you felt itimagine it? People walking up and down the aisles of
would help your creativity?the plane naked as jaybirds. What if the plane
Looking forward to your answer,happened to hit some turbulence, and some eighty
Peggy Pinkapplesyear old guy with a flabby gut was headed down the
Let me first go on the record and state that I didn'taisle? It's too horrible to even think about. Or what if
write Peggy back. Didn't even think about it, to besome nudist spills a cup of hot coffee in their lap? The
honest. A woman that paints in the nude and asks aone positive thing about that would be the creative
stranger if he writes his stuff while naked is not acussing that would slip from the scalded person's lips,
woman I'd want to know. Frankly, the only flakes Ibut the rest would not be pretty.
want to become acquainted with are in my favoriteFrankly, not everyone is meant to run around naked,
cereal, Post Raisin Bran - not naked female ones fromand I'll freely admit to being one of those that needs to
Florida. Plus, I'll bet you anything and a dollar that therestay clothed. Being naked needs to be confined to just
are mops in my closet more attractive than thistwo activities, and let's face it - we all know what they
woman is. There's no doubt about it in my mind at all -are, and I'll keep my editors happy by not going into
let's face it, if she was a fox, no self respectingdetail about them here. Other than that, we ought to
husband/boyfriend would let her go prancing aroundkeep our clothes on at all times. May as well keep
naked all the time.some level of mystery going about things as the vast
Even though I won't be getting to know her, let me bemajority of us aren't candidates for centerfolds when
sure and answer her two questions. If I don't, there arewe're naked. As Ed Jr. told me one time years ago, it's
guys out there like Jackie Little, Mike Griffin, and Gregone thing for people to think you're a haint, but it's a
Berryhill who might be tempted to get all sorts ofwhole 'nother thing to go out of your way to prove it
rumors started about what my answers might be. Herto them...