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Good Things Happen to Those Who Write

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Earn Money as a Physician Writer" What you'll find when writing is that this can give you tremendous professional renewal, because sometimes when you get in your careers, 10, 20, 30 years, it gets a little bit rote and a little bit, you know, repetitive and a little bit boring and less [...]

2025-11-24T12:32:29-05:00

Screenwriting for Physicians – All You Need is Time

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Man 1: What we're talking about today is screenwriting, you don't need actors. When you start, you don't need money. You don't need anything but an imagination and a computer. And, hopefully, you have those two things. And a little time, which is actually an issue with people who are working [...]

2025-11-24T12:37:02-05:00

Screenwriting for Physicians – The Step Outline

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Instructor: Step five, what does Rich mean when he says, "Step outline?" The step outline is essentially every scene in the movie. Okay? So step, you have this scene...it is a really good exercise, if this is interesting to you, to look at a movie you love in the genre you're [...]

2025-11-24T12:36:23-05:00

Screenwriting for Physicians – The Master Narrative

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Instructor: That idea of tapping into something that's in the psyche and then, people, it'll resonate with people. So I love this. If you can do all these things in your story, you're on your way, you know, and it's all on one single piece of paper. So it always starts [...]

2025-11-24T12:35:45-05:00

Screenwriting for Physicians – Writing Dialog, an Example and Advice

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Man 1: The scene description, it's pretty simple. It's just... Sean walks into the room. Sean picks up a... You know, it's present tense action verb writing. But the dialogue is really what people remember and you've got to get good at that. Sean: Thought about what you said to me [...]

2025-11-24T12:35:05-05:00

TV, Movie and Play Scripts: A Lesson for Physicians

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" https://youtu.be/VkW1CMiGlJM Rich: Your job is to look. Does this story lend itself to the theatrical stage? To TV? You know, in TV, you're thinking, in essence, if you're pitching a TV show, they want at least three seasons. Nobody wants a show that's done. If the show's a hit, they're [...]

2025-11-24T12:34:11-05:00

Freelance Writing Opportunities for Physicians

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Earn Money as a Physician Writer" So, a lot of people come to me and say, "I want to be a medical writer." And a lot of them are usually a little surprised to learn that there are many, many opportunities in the world of medical writing. It's very broad. And a [...]

2025-11-24T12:33:16-05:00

How to Find a Reputable Literary Agent

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Earn Money as a Physician Writer" https://youtu.be/x1tB9qU_StE So, next slide, "Where to Find Agents?" The good news, as I said, is there are a lot of us. There are a couple thousand agents out there. I won't say there are a few thousand good ones but there are at least a [...]

2021-10-12T19:27:57-04:00

An Exercise for Physicians Writing Disability/File Reviews

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" Well, I'm gonna tell you right up front that this was not actually submitted by a physician in the course, this was sent to me by one of the followers of the companies, actually. So, from a little critical of the [...]

2025-11-24T12:31:38-05:00

The Relationship Between Diagnosis and Disability When Reviewing Disability Claims as a Physician

Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" The goal of this presentation is several fold. First, to learn the definitional aspects of disability, learn how to evaluate the information provided, and learn how to do a claim review. I need to emphasize that disability is not a medical [...]

2025-11-24T12:30:51-05:00
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