The 2020 Pandemic Made Me a Better Writer

Bonsu Thompson
5 min readMar 13, 2021

On the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, I choose to appreciate the gifts given in the craziest year of my life

In all transparency, I spiraled at the onset of the 2020 pandemic. To be obsessed with clarity and void of valid answers is to be crazed. At the time, the words of the country’s president and medical experts were incongruent. Nurses and doctors who I called friends were also…

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Bonsu Thompson

Bonsu Thompson is a writer, producer, Brooklynite and 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow.