Thoraiya DyerHow to S-P-E-L-L Writing Success
November 16th 2006 10:18
Stephen Cannell is an Emmy Award winner who has created, written, or produced dozens of TV series, including the Rockford Files, the A-Team, and Hunter. The following is taken from an interview with him about the odds of being a dyslexic writer:
"So you've overcome dyslexia?"
"No, you don't overcome it. You learn to compensate for it. Despite my weakness I view it as a gift, not as a curse. Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, abstract thought and that's what my kind of creative writing is.
I'm also very visual. This means nothing in school, but when I write books and scripts, I'm seeing everything in my imagination.
I write quickly -- I go like the wind, and can get up to 15 pages a day. I have no problem 'downloading', it's 'inputting' where things get jumbled."
Now, try and beat that!
"So you've overcome dyslexia?"
"No, you don't overcome it. You learn to compensate for it. Despite my weakness I view it as a gift, not as a curse. Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, abstract thought and that's what my kind of creative writing is.
I'm also very visual. This means nothing in school, but when I write books and scripts, I'm seeing everything in my imagination.
I write quickly -- I go like the wind, and can get up to 15 pages a day. I have no problem 'downloading', it's 'inputting' where things get jumbled."
Now, try and beat that!
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Thanks for the information of this great producer. You might have to be kind of old to know who he is.