So, sitting all day in the house on the computer for the day job makes it a little daunting. Then of course there’s getting used to working from home. Hard for me to think about my next book when that’s how the day starts. I turn on the news every morning, hoping against hope that the death and infection rates are slowing, and as yet, it seems to only be increasing. So we’ll see how that goes.Īside from needing space, I’m also not the type to write when my mind is completely occupied by something other than the thing I’m writing at the moment. That said, even if I get my writing studio with a door that locks (we’re going to try to convert the garage during this time of lockdown), the six-year-old is already a master lock-picker. Tell me how many S’s there are in ‘occasional.’ I can’t remember,” they just give me blank expressions and start hitting the keyboard, laughing madly like a couple tiny maniacs. That’s mostly due to not having any kind of writing studio in our house, which means the kids would be asking every five seconds what I’m doing, what my book is about, and if they can help me write it. I am fine with (some) isolation, but I actually do a lot of my writing out of the house. I usually take a break after releasing a new book, but I likely would have begun a new one by now had this whole thing not happened. So it goes.Īs for the creative process, I guess it has stymied it. I guess we were all homebodies to begin with, so we’re not dealing with the same stress as those that have a real need to be out and about with bunches of people. And I’m in isolation with my favorite people, my family, so why would I complain? So, we’re taking this lockdown very seriously and fortunately they’re like me - not super social. I’m not antisocial, but the things writers like doing (reading and writing) are things done in isolation already, so it’s not a huge disruption to my life. As I’m betting you’ll hear from most writers, I’m not incredibly social.

Outside of the occasional moment of being overwhelmed emotionally by the terror and beauty of a whole planet trying to achieve something together, in unison, not only for themselves, but for their families, neighbors, and those workers out in public selflessly providing essential services for the rest of us, I guess you could say I’m doing quite well, actually. How are you faring in these strange times, is isolation a help or a hindrance to your creative process? Hi Logan, welcome to Writers on Lockdown! In the third of this new series, I caught up with him to talk about isolation, the flow of writing, and the unreliable narrator. Logan Ryan Smith writes dark, disorientating, and highly imaginative streams of consciousness with a unique sense of humour and madness.

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