Illness Imposed Writer’s Block.

Mark Spearman
2 min readJan 23, 2022

I was ill for a few weeks with a terrible flu. I hadn’t been this ill since I was a child. I used homemade remedies to fight it off. 2 weeks of laying in bed and then 1 week to start trying to climb out of bed. It was a bit soul crushing.

My income disappeared as I’m an independent contractor. There will be no sick pay coming. I stopped doing everything I liked to do, including writing. My only inputs during that time were YouTube videos by the hundreds. The videos did help to distract my mind from the painful situation. I wrote down many ideas from them. YouTube is a nice…

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Mark Spearman

I hail from Central Ohio. I have a diverse background and enjoy writing to the fullest. See more at http://markspearman.com