transmogrify
Verb
Meaning
To change into a different shape; to transform.
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As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
Collect epic piles of cheese, and transmogrify that cheese into new skins and accessories for your robotic mouse.
If I possessed the magic to make the business end of writing easier, I may have been tempted to transmogrify everything into a nail that I could hammer down with impunity.