Dear WriteByNighters,
This week we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to offer some discussion posts in which we can all share our stay-at-home experiences, not (necessarily) as writers, but as people.
We want to know: What's making you smile and laugh; what's making you cry (happy & sad); and what's giving you hope and encouragement.
To get the ball rolling, we asked a few WriteByNight consultants and friends to offer some responses. We want to make the same offer to you.
In the comments of each post, let's talk about what we're all going through and how it's shaping, or reshaping, us.
Here's a video that's helping to cheer up WBN coach/consultant Tom Andes: "I sent this to my mom, who said something about people in New Orleans being good at making lemonade out of lemons."
"Realization of this 'critical challenge of the hour' (as Thomas Merton described our times) casts a constant shadow in my mind and spirit, infusing my writing with melancholy shades," says WriteByNighter Ray Foy.
WBNer Elissa Malcohn finds solace in all of the stories of people helping people, while Adrienne Leslie takes comfort in the small glimpses of nature she can find: "I listen as silver mourning doves croon love songs to their mates while jays argue over territories and I think, if spring can return, surely, so will we."
