Three Reasons to Write, Especially Now

Writing in a Time of Pandemic

If you are practicing social distancing right now, life may have just gotten strange.

For a while, the “new normal” is anything but normal.

Writing may help you get through this time.

Perhaps you feel too anxious to write. The kids are underfoot. You’re worried about your parents, your neighbors, or your job.

These are legitimate concerns, but ruminating on them makes you feel worse. Writing might help.

Here are three reasons to write your way through the “shelter at home” period.

#1 — Write for your own sake

Writing can be a healthy way to deal with an uncertain time.

• If you write fiction, you can escape into worlds that you build. That’s not a bad thing.
• Nonfiction writers can work to make sense of the world, putting some order around the chaos or understanding it better.

Even if you’re writing about dark subjects, you control the narrative. You may not have a lot of control over outside events, but you…