A Writing Challenge of Pandemic Proportions
Most days, it is difficult to remember why one writes. In the times of this pandemic, one can expand the question to ask, why is it that one does anything at all? At the beginning of the lockdown, a time I remember as being one of overwhelming vertigo, I tentatively proposed on my Facebook page the formation of a lockdown writing community, one that would respond to a prompt sent out in the morning by writing 500 words to be shared by end of the day. Even though, in hindsight I could speak of the many ways in which this was a well thought out plan following in the hallowed footsteps of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Camus and such, it really wasn’t. It may have been summarily informed by the “Top ten writing habits” of successful novelists and such, but even that is a stretch. Truth be told...