Are you down with the sickness?
Posted By Warren on June 12, 2010
How do writers write when they are not feeling well? Take yesterday, for example. I don’t know what happened, but something hit me like a bullet to the brain. It was mostly concentrated in my head. Light hurt my brain, to open my eyes was to feel excruciating pain. This was combined with the fact my brain felt like one big moth ball. Thoughts and actions that don’t come the fastest to begin with were positively leisurely in coming.
By the end of the day my brain felt much better, but thoughts and writing were still slow to come. My brain still seemed to be full of cotton when I tried to write. I knew I wasn’t better, so I just called off the piece I was working on and went back to bed. Since that is what I had been doing most of the day anyway…
Today I can still feel the effects, but it is much easier for words to pour forth. I postponed one article I was working on until today, because the words literally felt like they were being yanked from my head one at a time. I will have to finish it today…
My mind is still a big woolen today, so I am going to cut this post a tad short. I know that, as a writer, I will have to write sick at some point. Luckily there are people that have come before me and I can look up advice on the internet.
Maybe I’ll just forget yesterday ever happened…
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