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Cough Cough Hack Wheeze

Posted on | May 19, 2010 | No Comments

So I managed to catch Pneumonia.

For the pople that know me this actually wont come as too much of a shock. To my friends I known by variations on ‘That Guy that Gets Sick All The Time, Sicko, Sicky, Sicky Sicky Mc Sick Sick and Duck and Cover!’

That last one is a reference to something else, but it’s not that important.

I did the MC Work for my Dad’s book launch party just before I fell ill (I mean JUST before. I thanked everyone who came and six hours later I was bedridden). The book launch went great and I hope to get some photo’s up on here once I can leave my house.

Because I’m so ill I wanted to do a quick post on writing whilst ill. As writers who don’t do this full time we tend to squeeze writing around the other events of our days. There’s a real misconception, even amongst writers, that writing doesn’t take a lot out of you.

This is wrong. At least it is in my experience.

Writing is really good fun, but it does take a lot of energy. If you’ve ever noticed how drained you can feel after writing an intense scene then you have some idea of what I;m talking about. If you;re sick putting your body and your mind through something intese, or profound could drain your already low resources.

Instead, I suggest working on outline or story bible stuff. It’s not as taxing, gives you all the nice feel good creation chemicals I;m convinced we’re all addicted too, and if you’re hallucinating due to high fever you might just come up with a really freaky story idea.

Right, that’s my bit for today, I’m going back to watching Dr Who*.

* If you want a great example of horror/thriller/adventure writing for the screen that could have worked almost as well on the page go watch the episode “Blink” of the last season of Dr Who.

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