Inside the Writing Life: Fun With Friends

It’s been a year for putting the shutters up…

In this time of Covid, I’ve frequently joked that the writing life is “naturally self-isolating”—and although speaking in humour, it’s also true, by and large, since one of the key ingredients for writing (for most writers, although I’m sure there are exceptions) is uninterrupted writing time.

The corollary of this, of course, is that storytelling and literature spring from observation, interaction, and the hurly-burly of life. So although writing ma...