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Updated Feb 22, 2010

 


Screenwriting Help E-Mail (Feb 22, 2010)

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This week's question: 

Should I write when I'm sick?

Rayne 


This week's answer: 

Writing and Illness

They're are many sick writers. 

Writers who are so disturbed and lost and neurotic and crazy and not to be trusted and who write in big, italicized font to impress their readers

Oh, you mean "sick" as in "physically ill"!  That's a different potato altogether.  Should you write when you're sick?  Good question.  I'm going to assume that you wrote it when you were sick.  Physically sick.  And, going with that assumption, let me now ask you a question.  When you wrote that question, were you seeing your monitor screen through blurry eyes and from a foggy, feverish, dizzy head?  If so, that's pretty sick and I wouldn't advise you writing when you're like that.  Well, unless you're writing a medical drama or medical comedy or medical melodrama or a dramatic doctor comedy.  Then, writing sick could work very nicely.

Or how about a script about a blurry-eyed, foggy, feverish, dizzy-headed writer?

DcH 

 

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