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I would also like to include in this post what are the difficulties of writing in the days of COVID? What have you done to keep the juices flowing? What would you tell someone struggling with their output?
I'm also wondering about how authors are handling including COVID in their writing. I've read one recently released book in which it's mentioned. If you've had an idea for a novel for a while, do you include the pandemic, or do you go ahead with your original idea? Eventually, I think it's probably going to have to be incorporated or likely be the subject of novels going forward for a few years. Or maybe not. What do you think?
Scout wrote: "I'm also wondering about how authors are handling including COVID in their writing. I've read one recently released book in which it's mentioned. If you've had an idea for a novel for a while, do y..."I had to do a book launch while we were in the lockdown phase, which was a bit tricky, but it's fantasy.
I have written about a deadly disease in one of my stories, but the bulk of the story was conceived and written well before the pandemic, and because it's scifi, it's a long way in the future. I'm still working on that one. I may have a few more insights now, however.
I have many friends tell me they are creatively blocked during the pandemic, but I've found it quite liberating. So I've been writing up a storm -- including an entire novel about what happens a few years after a deadly pandemic (The Potrero Complex, from Regal House in 2022). It's hard not to write dark stuff right now!
I have avoided writing about pandemics, in part because I think there ar4e too many other writers doing it, and most of them know a lot more about it than I do. Maybe one day I might give it a try, but not in the near future.
Scout wrote: "I'm also wondering about how authors are handling including COVID in their writing. I've read one recently released book in which it's mentioned. If you've had an idea for a novel for a while, do y..."I personally don't think you shoehorn COVID into a story though I think there is plenty of room for somebody who wants to comment on these times and there's plenty of rich material there.
I started by doing a flash fiction book that was themed with government's lack of caring for their own citizens. When I published this, I knew that I had more to say on this theme and that this disease would expose the fissures.
I guess what I'm trying to say is it should be something at the core of what you're saying and not just a novelty act. I hope that makes sense.
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I wrote a book To The Survivors about a very bad pandemic. I have been reluctant to mention it during the current crisis.Other writing has not progressed much - the political background hurts my thriller plotting and sci-fi is stalling mainly because I have continued to work all through the lockdowns. One of my productive writing periods in the past has been on holidays and they have been absent. Staycations do not have same appeal as writing on a warm terrace after a morning swim.
I definitely get that. Mine was written specifically about this pandemic and even calling it that will bring you right in the middle of the culture wars. The pandemic is only a side issue of what I wrote. It's more about how the government responded to it, but just calling it a pandemic on your side is either 100% right or 100% wrong. I can see this easily transferring over to something even slightly removed.
Amy wrote: "I have many friends tell me they are creatively blocked during the pandemic, but I've found it quite liberating. So I've been writing up a storm -- including an entire novel about what happens a fe..."I am on the other side of the blockage. I usually read between 50-75 full length books. This year just over 20. It is due to the Pandemic and both the job and family stresses associated. For those of you than can write during this, good luck and keep going.
Interesting, but I also have found my writing productivity this year to have fallen behind. Possibly in part because I am trying to edit one large scientific book on planetary formation (the first edition reviewed over 600 scientific publications and the second edition increases this) and it is depressing work. All the same, somehow I lost a certain amount of enthusiasm.
I plan on having the book out sometime in November. The book is all about COVID and the times we live in. This is the follow-up to Liberte but it can be read as a stand-alone book. Where Liberte had some writing that I'm very proud of I believe this one will be even more pointed and compact. I hope you enjoy the trailer. And if you'd be so kind:
1. Please consider giving my video a thumbs up on youtube. I'd greatly appreciate it. It just makes the video more visible with Google's algorithms. I think you need to be signed in to Google to be able to do so.
2. You can also subscribe to my channel as that will certainly help too.
In a matter of weeks, I plan on posting a link to the book when it goes public.
Feel free to add your book concerning Covid