Pandemic Thoughts: Whence the Blahs?

“2020 was the year I finally got my wish, to be really bored of the monotony of one day bleeding into the next” (artist Anicka Yi). I neither am, nor wish to be, bored. A new day of writing always awaits and I never know where it will take me. However, months into the lockdown, I suffered inertia, spending scarce reserves of energy to do something as simple as peeling an orange. Pandemic anxiety is debilitating. Read more of my thoughts about writing at REFLECTIONS.

A pandemic loop: Anxiety-inertia-boredom
Why writers write: “Most of our lives are mundane and dull. It’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.” – John Updike

Author: annsepstein@att.net

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

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