tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post8328950651750543896..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Out of Step (as usual?) by Mari Howard (Clare Weiner)Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-30173041236239690742020-05-23T20:17:52.789+01:002020-05-23T20:17:52.789+01:00Me too - drifting mind, drifting sense of purpose,...Me too - drifting mind, drifting sense of purpose, lost sense of time passing. Strange. So glad you are able to be creative again.Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10159433850097862102020-05-23T03:11:51.553+01:002020-05-23T03:11:51.553+01:00Hi Mari, I was struggling to write before Covid, b...Hi Mari, I was struggling to write before Covid, but it seems to have eased a little during the last couple of months. <br /><br />In many ways, time is more plentiful, but it's been filled up with mundane work that never took much attention before - cleaning, cooking , laundry. <br /><br />Time warps for me. <br /><br />Love the covers of your books! <br /><br />eden<br /><br /><br />Eden Bayleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08043540142363106345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-79233317608306044022020-05-22T21:11:29.185+01:002020-05-22T21:11:29.185+01:00And I thought it was just me ... Yes. We writers s...And I thought it was just me ... Yes. We writers should thrive in a self-quarantine situation, free of distractions, and be producing our brains out every day. But I've discovered a variant of Parkinson's Law: that procrastination expands to fill the time available! I look forward to reading The Labyrinth Year... Umberto Tosihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939504157464234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-12224898517976156632020-05-22T19:29:55.206+01:002020-05-22T19:29:55.206+01:00Well that's one good thing to have emerged fro...Well that's one good thing to have emerged from the lockdown, that it's enabled you to concentrate on your next book in the Mullins family saga. I'm interested - and sympathetic - that you found the shock of Brexit stopped you in your tracks. Arguably one should still be able to enter one's own world as a writer and get on with it, whatever's happening in the real world - but I agree that upsetting events can just make it impossible for a while. So it's good news that you've got going again! I too have found the time to concentrate on my third children's book and hopefully that might appear eventually.<br /> As for how we treat the pandemic in contemporary fiction - I hope the answer is not, or at least not for long. Who wants to read romances where no one can ever meet up, go out for a drink, touch each other? Or thrillers when you can't chase a suspect through a crowd because there won't be a crowd? The mind boggles.Griselda Heppelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09207965148074302337noreply@blogger.com