If you’re feeling like this, remember: writers aren’t war journalists, we write narratives. We don’t break news. Hemingway didn’t write A Farewell To Arms til 1929. We have to observe and experience the trauma and then process it and THEN write. We are in step 1. https://twitter.com/t_ruggeri/status/1320427969240707073

Which, sure, you don’t have to be writing about Covid or lockdown. But I think those of us having a struggle being creative are not lazy or imposters, I think our particular writer brains are going “Stop. Something important is happening. Experience it. Don’t duck it. Be here.”

We write for different reasons, mine comes from integrating what I have learned or gone through in life into creative narratives. If you are so concerned with producing content that you stop living life actively...your (or my) writing gets stale, lifeless, and repetitive.

If you can’t write right now you can absorb. You can soak up juices for fruitful years ahead. Doesn’t mean you need to live 24/7 on Covid death tolls. Investigate your loneliness. Investigate your new appreciation of plentiful food. Research or learn a new hobby. Fill the tank.