If you’ve been looking for something to do, during these crazy Covid 10/Coronavirus times, obviously writing is the perfect time to write. Some of us are contemplating our own lives, as we wait at home, avidly watching, or strongly avoiding, the talks on the media about death rates, and such things.
When you have to stay at home, to keep safe from this virus, sit down, think about your life, and the things you want to be remembered about what that life has been, what you’re realised, what you’ve achieved, or wish you’d achieved. Or maybe now is the time to write silly little ditties, to get, and give a few giggles, in these serious times.
Or perhaps now is the time to get stuck right into that novel they’ve been thinking about writing. You’re stuck at home, and there’s only so much dire TV reportage a person can face, so why not write that detective story, or romance, or Science Fiction book, now is surely the time! If there is an explosion of new fiction, we can all read our way through our lock down times …
Poetry, a poem about this, and that, and there are many ways to share our poetic words with others, other than being jammed into a small room, reading out, or performing our poems. We all have phones these days, and laptops, and can easily record ourselves ‘doing’ our poems, and post them online. I saw such a thing live earlier today, and it was great! (thank you to my friend Martin Christmas for the heads up)
Or you could record yourself performing poetry written previously, keep on practising until you get it just right, and then put it up, ‘out there’ on your blog. Or if you don’t have a blog yet, now could be the very best time ever to do that! Blogging is the perfect way to keep connected with others, doing the things you love doing,
And of course, your garden is always out there, waiting for you to go out there and smell the roses, or the rosemary, or whatever it is you have growing outside. Good times, even in these worrying times. Do the best you can, and keep safe!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 