Time for change?
As we adjust to move out of lockdown, it will impact on our writing lives too. In the first of a threepart series, WM has some strategies to help you strike the write balance.
Whatever the last yearand-a-bit has been like for you – and we truly hope that you and yours have all come though it intact – lockdown has altered our everyday existences and made for a collective shift in how we live. For those of us who are writers, that means in how we write, too.
Chances are that while Covid-19 altered or disrupted our living and working routines, many people will have had time they didn’t anticipate – time that they may well have devoted to a creative project. In the case of WM’s readers, that will mean writing. A lot of us may have been filling our time with dream projects, or working on our craft, developing manuscripts and beavering away over our laptops. Maybe we’ve been earning our living from it. Maybe it’s been a way of coping, or the fulfilment of a lifelong dream of having time to write. Maybe it’s a new hobby. Whatever it is, however it’s been part of our lives, for many it’s been a lifesaver, and for all of us, it’s become an intrinsic part of our new normal.
But now, with lockdown easing and, fingers crossed, life opening up again, how are you going to take your writing forward? How are you going to capitalise on the work you’ve done, and not lose momentum? How has the pandemic changed your writing, and how are you going to develop your identity as a writer in the future?