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Fully Interlocking Pieces, by Catriona

Reading: Last year, about a month into “Lockdown Life”, the internet was a-buzz with ways to “pass the time”; reading was high on that list, for many people. Have you read more/more widely/differently/less during the past 12 months? Please tell us a bit about what, and why?

When Cathy Ace was redecorating her house (useful) as a way to pass the time, I was doing the jigsaw puzzles (less useful) that I'd been avoiding because they looked too hard, while Coronation Street (essential) burbled away o...

50 shades of cream and yellow... by Cathy Ace

 Reading: Last year, about a month into “Lockdown Life”, the internet was a-buzz with ways to “pass the time”; reading was high on that list, for many people. Have you read more/more widely/differently/less during the past 12 months? Please tell us a bit about what, and why?

I have to admit that – about a year ago – I was working through the publishing process for a book that came out in June and I wasn’t really tuned into what was going on in terms of, “Help me out, I’m bored”. At least, that’s...

Reading in the Year of Covid

Last year, about a month into “Lockdown Life”, the internet was a-buzz with ways to “pass the time”; reading was high on that list, for many people. Have you read more/more widely/differently/less during the past 12 months? Please tell us a bit about what, and why?

From Frank

My reading habits have not changed with Covid-19.

I have kept to the same formula for years now. I have a physical book on my nightstand, a digital one on my Kindle, and an audio one on my phone, and I read each in its appropr...

Reading For the Edgars

 Q: Last year, about a month into “Lockdown Life”, the internet was a-buzz with ways to “pass the time”; reading was high on that list, for many people. Have you read more/more widely/differently/less during the past 12 months? Please tell us a bit about what, and why?

-from Susan

 

Boy, was it different! More. More widely. Differently. I chaired the Edgar Awards jury for Best Novel for the 2021 awards (Nominees already announced on the MWA site; winner to be announced with a flourish Thursday, Apr...

Of Mullets and Microphones

by Abir

How has “Lockdown Life” affected your writing? Have you written more? Developed/honed new writing skills? If so, please tell us about it. Or have you found yourself off-track, lacking motivation, or otherwise sidelining your writing? If the latter, how have you handled that?

 

Morning.

 

Friday again

 

This week, we are talking the effects of Lockdown on writing life.

 

Let’s look at the first part of the question:

 

Have you written more: 

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha!

That’s very funny.

 

I have eaten ...

L’appétit vient en mangeant by James W. Ziskin

How has “Lockdown Life” affected your writing? Have you written more? Developed/honed new writing skills? If so, please tell us about it. Or have you found yourself off-track, lacking motivation, or otherwise sidelining your writing? If the latter, how have you handled that?

(DISCLAIMER. I wrote a similar post to this one a few months ago. I’ve used some of the same graphics and descriptions for this week’s question.)

I wouldn’t say I developed any new writing skills during the past twelve months,...

Write and wrong

Image by Free-Photos

How has “Lockdown Life” affected your writing? Have you written more? Developed/honed new writing skills? If so, please tell us about it. Or have you found yourself off-track, lacking motivation, or otherwise sidelining your writing? If the latter, how have you handled that?

by Dietrich

There’s always enough time to write, lockdown or no lockdown. The trick is keeping uplifted so I’ll sit down and do it. I never miss a day of writing, some longer than others, but as long as I s...

Covid Writing

 

This week’s question is about how lockdown life has affected our writing. I wish I had an answer for that. 
It always seems like I’m struggling as a writer, so when I’ve been writing in the past year and can’t seem to get words down the way I want them to sound, I don’t know if it’s “same old, same old,” or due to being locked down. I do know that I wrote an entire Samuel Craddock book that I was finished with around August, and that this was the result:
     1) I didn’t like it. 
    2) My writ...

A Year of Writing in Lockdown

How has “Lockdown Life” affected your writing? Have you written more? Developed/honed new writing skills? If so, please tell us about it. Or have you found yourself off-track, lacking motivation, or otherwise sidelining your writing? If the latter, how have you handled that?

Brenda Chapman here.
As we pass the one-year anniversary of the W.H.O. pandemic declaration, this is a good time to reflect on the state of my writing career.
Have I written more? The answer is yes, but whether I've written any...

Business as Unusual

 Business: How have you changed the way you promote and support your work, and generally go about the business of being an author, since “Lockdown Life” began a year ago? Anything you’ve learned that will remain in place as we move forward?

Abir here.

 

So earlier this week Piers Morgan resigned. You know Piers Morgan – loud-mouthed, opinionated, British journalist cum rent-a-gob who got sacked from his job as editor of a newspaper for printing fake photos, and sacked from CNN for nobody watching h...