I think the pandemic should yield some really interesting literature and I look forward to it. I don't know if I'd do anything different if I could go back, but my biggest pandemic related regret is that, in trying to write my novel while raising children/working, it's taken me 8 years, which means a huge amount of it was written pre-pandemic. I can't decide whether I want to try to work in some changes that Covid has wrought or just say, "Yeah, the setting is 2016."
As a ER nurse I know that the stories will come & that there are millions of them from all vantage points. Writing about our experiences across our cultural spectrum will lead to pain, yet also healing. All those who died & those who live with lingering physical & mental illness.
The moral fatigue the health care members of our society are now feeling impacts us all.
Those of us with years of wisdom & those with a few years into new healthcare careers are done.
I write about the pandemic & what it's done to my 3 little grandsons all under the age of 6 & their parents. My daughter gave birth to our youngest, now 3 yrs old, wearing a mask. My son in law was told that if he left the hospital they would not allow him back in. These are the examples of the damage done to all beings of all ages during this pandemic & the political forces that led to well over a million deaths. The abject lies & hatred injected by a failed president increased the damage to our society thousands fold. Where else to take the fact that none of us are okay, besides to the world of writing, music & art?
Oof, just read the (really excellent) story. Conjures the fear and uncertainty of that time period. Personally, I think I'm ready for pandemic fiction — though sparingly.
The link to the story didn’t work, but you inspired me to put in a good word for Rebecca Rosenblum’s poignant, sharply observed and surprisingly funny pandemic memoir THESE DAYS ARE NUMBERED. Although I doubted I could read a whole book about the pandemic, the writing hooked me, especially the droll conversations between Rosenblum and her husband.
I think the pandemic should yield some really interesting literature and I look forward to it. I don't know if I'd do anything different if I could go back, but my biggest pandemic related regret is that, in trying to write my novel while raising children/working, it's taken me 8 years, which means a huge amount of it was written pre-pandemic. I can't decide whether I want to try to work in some changes that Covid has wrought or just say, "Yeah, the setting is 2016."
As a ER nurse I know that the stories will come & that there are millions of them from all vantage points. Writing about our experiences across our cultural spectrum will lead to pain, yet also healing. All those who died & those who live with lingering physical & mental illness.
The moral fatigue the health care members of our society are now feeling impacts us all.
Those of us with years of wisdom & those with a few years into new healthcare careers are done.
I write about the pandemic & what it's done to my 3 little grandsons all under the age of 6 & their parents. My daughter gave birth to our youngest, now 3 yrs old, wearing a mask. My son in law was told that if he left the hospital they would not allow him back in. These are the examples of the damage done to all beings of all ages during this pandemic & the political forces that led to well over a million deaths. The abject lies & hatred injected by a failed president increased the damage to our society thousands fold. Where else to take the fact that none of us are okay, besides to the world of writing, music & art?
Fun! I’ll check it out.
Oof, just read the (really excellent) story. Conjures the fear and uncertainty of that time period. Personally, I think I'm ready for pandemic fiction — though sparingly.
The link to the story didn’t work, but you inspired me to put in a good word for Rebecca Rosenblum’s poignant, sharply observed and surprisingly funny pandemic memoir THESE DAYS ARE NUMBERED. Although I doubted I could read a whole book about the pandemic, the writing hooked me, especially the droll conversations between Rosenblum and her husband.