When the pandemic hit, I was in the twelfth year of writing a novel set in the near future. Trump amped up my choices when I was writing (I’m counting on Biden being a good editor); COVID-19, however, shut me down. It made writing fiction feel like shining a flashlight at the sun. COVID-19 and its massive chain of cause-and-effect — ie, its awesome internal consistency — made everything I’d written look like what it was: made-up crap. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...
Source: thestar February 27, 2021 11:03 UTC