In the vast majority of media where writers are portrayed, we are expected to be brooding, anti-social, full of angst and personal demons, and then the most common stereotype of all writers – drunk. Now, just as soon as I finish this gin, I will present to you a list of the five ways Hollywood makes writers look bad in movies. Absolute Introvert I’ll be the first to admit that I can be incredibly shy around people when I first meet them, and uncomfortable in unfamiliar settings. It takes me time to warm up to people and feel comfortable enough to be myself. But to hear Hollywood describe it, all writers from https://vortexessay.com/ are so introverted they are completely detached from reality and live only in a fantasy world that we’ve created in our head. While there are many writers that identify as introverts, that doesn’t mean that we are complete shut-ins with no social skills. When it boils down to it, writing is a very solitary profession. We aren’t constantly interacting with people all day, and it may cause us to seem like complete hermits but that doesn’t mean we are. We’re Also Musicians While it is true that many of us appreciate music on a deeper level than your average Joe that doesn’t mean that we are instantly musically inclined. Though many of us wish we were. It’s a much better way to pick up chicks… or so I’ve heard. Brooding, Chain-Smoking Drunks This is probably the most common stereotype. Unless we are brooding over our notebooks or typewriters (because using a computer to write our art on is too sterile and heartless of course) we chain smoke and make a point of keeping ourselves drunk. Oh, and if we aren’t drinking a bottle of bourbon, then of course we are drinking coffee. Coffee that we’ve “Irished up” no doubt. It’s a ridiculous stereotype if for no other reason than we can’t type and drink that much at the same time. We’d never get anything done. It is true we enjoy a drink as much as the next person, but we’re writers, not airline pilots. Drug Addicts This goes along with the drinking thing. Many naïve, pretentious writers experiment with drugs as a way to “experience everything about the human condition.” Do you know who else experiments with drugs? Teenagers and college students. I guess that makes them all drug addicts too, right? Writers Are Also Good With Computers, Like All Brainy People A common thing you will see in movies and TV is the writer as a defacto nerd. Not only do they have a wealth of knowledge on a variety of subjects (I won’t begrudge THAT stereotype), but they are also expert scientists and computer hackers when needed, simply because they can write sentences better than “Wen People Complain Wen I Text Slow , But Wen Dey Take Long To Reply – Nuffin Is Said “ My family is just as bad about it. They think just because I work on a computer all day, I must know everything about them. Sorry, I just know how to string words together to form sentences. And troll Liverpool FC fans on Twitter.

Of all the people that Hollywood likes to toss stereotypes around of, one of the groups that gets stereotyped the most yet says the least about it are writers. Part of that might be because as writers and copywriters, we don’t want to bite the hand that feeds us, for those of us lucky enough to write in the entertainment sector, but it is about time someone stood up and said enough is enough.