This is why I plan on writing my own pandemic novel after the current one ends, even though it won't be about the current one. For now, I just record the events to use for ideas.
I haven't written as much as a sentence since Lockdown 1.0. It's hard to write about life and how we know it, when life is currently how we don't know it. My inactivity isn't all down to the Pandemic, though. Dell waterlogged my laptop (true story.). My replacement (HP) laptop hasn't gone a fortnight without giving me problems. I'm currently in the process of returning it. And I'm in desperate need of an upgrade in my chair department, as my current chair is akin to a rocking chair. All that aside, it's been a productive year...
Hah! I'm in exactly the same boat. Mine rocks side to side—actually in any direction, was getting worse and worse, and to top it off the hydraulic post suddenly quit working, so it dropped to child level. Totally undignified! I'm now using the old office chair that doesn't even recline. Pfffft!!
I am lol. I sympathize. There's a mirror staring at me when I sit at my desk, I resemble Norman Bates in "Psycho" when he's sitting in a rocking chair wearing a dress and a wig. So yes, I had to dig out a wig and a dress, otherwise i'd look silly...
The pandemic and lockdowns around the world inspired my first story! Then it got me wondering about other situations in history in my local area when there were other circumstances that changed family life dramatically, and thinking about characters in those worlds and how they might react to the changes. And Bob's your uncle, now I have half a dozen stories in my head at various stages of ideas, not much in the way of manuscripts at the moment but they're floating around my mind somewhere
Currently in a huge slump. Haven't really written anything since my last post. I want to blame covid, but in reality I haven't developed any kind of work ethic for writing. Reading a lot on this forum for the last few weeks has reignited me, and I realize I'll have to change a huge chunk of my story to make it interesting. If nothing else, I have ample time for self reflection, and here I am now. 3 chapters in the trash and a new outline on the way, but I've never felt better about my story!
It never came to a full lockdown where I'm at. I've been busy with other things, and I didn't accomplish as much as I expected in my writing. I'm writing two different stories, one with this pandemic as a setting, but barely started, and the other with no pandemic in the story. I was thinking of writing a 1918 influenza pandemic story, but ended up changing my mind. The pandemic is still worrisome. Many businesses have closed down because of it. Although the restrictions over here were never as severe as it had been in a lot of the other countries, it was still enough to affect the economy (to a lesser degree) and the fear has made some people reluctant to eat outside or visit the mall. Other than that, the direct effects of this pandemic is less than I expected. There's a sense of sadness when watching the news, but I myself don't know anyone personally who was ever infected. In fact, I know some people who say that the disease has been exaggerated and aren't afraid at all. I still got ideas from these past two years. Another thing that I noticed is that people are more divided now. If I write a novel with these situations as the setting, the mood would be very different from what I expected it to be.
