What a lovely way to share our common situation and your family's experiences! I can't think of another time we've collectively shared an experience globally, and in some ways that feels to me as if it connects us all to one another--a visceral and immediate reminder that we're more alike than we are different. I hope this idea lingers and helps mend some of the current breaches we're seeing.

Isn't that the truth? No one can read the future or people's minds--I love the idea of simply following your heart and muse in your writing.

I think you just write what feels right, what feels needed to you, and hope for the best. There are probably people out there who need it too.

It depends where they're filming, too. I'm a member of a screenwriting group and I follow a specific broadcast medium which is currently filming. They've been pretty transparent with what they're doing.

Great point--I talk about this in my book as well. Making a story too much of its moment can tie it to that moment and limit its longevity. At some point we'll have to consider the pandemic, quarantine, and world events in stories--it's too global and defining not to in certain cases--but I agree that we need more perspective and distance.

BTW, speaking of Hollywood, see my above reply about one of the film/TV industry's creative solutions to the problem. 😉

I've heard a lot of authors worrying about it--glad it was reassuring! To me too. 🙂

And, much of Hollywood is quarantining actors and/or taking other protective measures, so it's not going to be seen on a lot of TV and major motion picture programming.

denise

Can you imagine writing a romance with social distancing! 😀 Although part of me relishes the challenges and would love to see it (and I suspect eventually we will, at least in allegory or parable). I read recently--as a side note--that Hollywood, in its efforts to get back into production, is using mannequins for love scenes and other close-quarters interactions. I love it, actually--the adaptability of all the special-effects advances being used to approximate real life so we can continue to find solace and hope in art. <3