{"id":5623,"date":"2015-01-08T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2015-01-09T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:14:20","slug":"writing-while-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2015\/01\/08\/writing-while-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing While Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thermometer\"<\/a>I wrote the first draft of my second novel<\/a> while sick. I didn’t know at the time that I had a 2.2cm pituitary tumor<\/a> growing in my head. I was going blind in my right eye, but I kept writing.<\/p>\n

I’ve always written while sick; after all, if I wrote full time, I wouldn’t have the luxury of being able to not<\/em> write during the duration of an illness.<\/p>\n

But I don’t write full time… (Well, at least fiction — I do<\/em> pay the bills 100% by writing.)<\/p>\n

If You’re Sick (And You Have a Day Job)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you’re sick, and you have a day job…ya know what? There’s no shame in not<\/em> writing. When I think back to all the times over the years I’ve still written while sick…it’s kind of sad. I’d take a sick day at work and still…spend the day writing, instead of resting. Which made me feel like crap when returning to work.<\/p>\n

2015 (So Far…)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

New Year’s Eve, I felt it — that tinge of a cold: a sore throat and something happening inside my head. I slept most of New Year’s Day. Worked that Friday, and slept all weekend. Only now, has it all started clearing up.<\/p>\n

Unlike the past, as much as it’s pulled at me, I didn’t write. I rested and read…and then returned to work yesterday. And again, today. Tomorrow, it’s work…<\/p>\n

But this weekend, for the first time in 2015 (outside of blog entries), it’s back to fiction.<\/p>\n

And I can’t wait…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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