Pandemic Thoughts: Can Writing Answer the Question?

“Whatever the question, ‘writing’ is the answer. [But] how can little old me possibly manage something as vast as this pandemic? By writing one word after the next, the ending will appear” (Novelist Leslie Pietrzyk). I too am writing to the ending, but not to make sense of the pandemic. I simply write my way to the end of each story, much as I did before the pandemic. When the pandemic ends, I won’t have an answer for it. I’ll just continue to write. For more thoughts about writing, see REFLECTIONS.

Why writers write: “A word is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction, and that destination owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.” – John Fowles

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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