It has been suggested to me by a friend that ‘now’ would be a great time for me to get stuck into my writing, and get plenty written.
‘Now’ relates to the fact that I am at home, unable to easily get out and about, because I have fractured my right ankle. The friend obviously meant well, and wasn’t being nasty at all, in any way.
However, I suspect this friend has probably never fractured a bone (or two). I have been home from hospital for the operation to ‘fix’ my fractured ankle, for less than a week, and I have written a few creative words, (a poem and some blog things), but the thought of writing anything much at all, couldn’t be further from my mind.
Merely getting around my house is enough of a challenge for me. I can’t walk, I have to use a kind of super scooter called a Knee Walker to get from here to there and back again.
So getting stuck back into my proposed series of Cozy Mystery books isn’t appealing to me at all, to write about. I do have a better knowledge of what it’s like to be in hospital though, and I certainly had a thought while I was in hospital, that the Town my series was set in should have a hospital, for sure.
I didn’t get any further than that though, although, I’m excited that my writing group will be at my place for our next meeting, and who know, I may write about my main character at the Talloola Hospital, investigating a crime!
So yes, Time can be an important factor in having the opportunity to write, but you also need the inspiration, and the inclination to write too. Time alone won’t make a novel happen. I often get quite inspired by our group’s writing prompts, so who knows? Maybe something will appear at the meeting on Thursday! 
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 