Will you be writing about your experience?

It is more difficult to stay focused on my work.  For me, writing requires some dedicated, focused time for writing, followed by sharing ideas with some of my writer friends to keep fresh ideas progressing.  The process is a bit like rafting down a river; I know where I want to get but there are a number of different options to traverse the flow.  I often pull the raft from the water, review my last path with friends and then reenter the flow back upstream to try a different path.  Over the past couple months I find myself needing to pull the raft out more often.  

Patricia, I have written about my experiences in my last two books. I am presently writing a guest chapter about my experiences in this upcoming book. So, yes I am writing about my experiences. I did write another guest chapter in another book about what is happening in the war wounds of Traumatic Brain Injuries and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with returning Middle Eastern War veterans. 

Sincerely,

Grady Birdsong

I've been writing in my journal daily to keep a record so that I can write more in-depth blog posts later. I have a very close friend who had the COVID-19 virus and I am going to interview her for a survivor's story. 

I have also spent this time re-reading a book that my great-grandmother wrote that spans from the 1900s to 1980 and finding some great parallels to use in my future writing. I have even considered writing a "volume two" to her original book!

I have been writing blips and sharing funny memes on FB in reference to the time we are currently in. 
Plus I am also engaged in a community give-back project called BETTY BULLDOG DELIVERS which supports a financially threatened restaurant, funding donations to  local animal shelter groups, providing kids with free learning activity books during their hone schooling time, and providing donated meals to some 1st responders. It’s been greatly successful and I will most likely share the results with readers in some format down the road. This is all based in Albuquerque NM. 

It's hard to say if I will write of this time in the first person or not. I am much more interested in my childhood honestly than in present events. 

I think an awful lot will be written about the lockdown and the virus so I’ll probably focus my attention elsewhere, unless the experience fits into a story or I think of an interesting angle.

I’m working on my novel, so unlikely to write about this experience.

My creative juices are flowing and I'm writing quite a bit on my blog and social media regarding my Everyday Being website, supporting trauma healing, and regression, during these times and supporting my subscribers. I don't feel the need to preserve the memories of this unique experience. 

I will not be writing about my friends or my experiences during this difficult time because I know there will be many others who will be doing this. Let's just all gather together to help others so that they can be comforted due to this unprecedented  time in our lives. Thank you for allowing me to post my opinion on this. Many wishes to everyone to stay healthy and safe.

Evangeline "Evie" Maronitis Riegler

Of course!  I already have.   The journaling is life to me now.  It is important to record our thoughts at this time in history.  There is absolutely no impetus for editing my book. Not that I reveled in it before the pandemic. Some day I will be able to sit in my corner and work on it again.   When that day comes I'll know it. It is just survival right now: massive amounts of cooking, hiking, walking, yoga and time with family.  I do long for normal again.