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theamazingannie · 1 year ago

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Saw someone on Twitter complaining that tv shows and books and such made during modern times often don’t depict anything having to do with the pandemic and how it’s some big conspiracy about pandemic denial and I can understand why someone would think that considering all the denial irl but personally I don’t want to depict Covid in my work because the pandemic completely affected so many aspects of our lives and by depicting it in my work I’d have to completely change so many parts of my stories because there’s no way the events would go as planned if there was a pandemic happening and I’ve been writing these stories for YEARS, since before the pandemic, and I don’t want to change anything and even if the work was new, how do you incorporate this huge life event into your story without it taking away all the focus?

#writing #like I get that not writing about Covid is like writing a 1930s show without the Great Depression #but even with that I feel like it’s hard to create a story in the 1930s without it being ABOUT the Great Depression #and back then there were significantly less people making art so it affected less people #with our heavily saturated entertainment forms everywhere we looked there would be Covid #any character that’s political would HAVE to talk about the pandemic #any character that’s disabled would HAVE to take precautions to avoid illness #any character that’s a doctor would HAVE to constantly have patients with Covid and talk about Covid #it would take too much focus away from the real story #and if you wanted to write something taking place in 2020 then they’d HAVE to stay indoors if they’re not an inherently selfish character #if you have characters who are teachers they HAVE to do online learning and not actually be in the classroom #there goes your school centered drama #can’t have Abby have an affair with a teacher when they’re never in the same room #can’t have Bridget and Jessica gossiping about Linda sleeping with brad if they never meet face to face #you can have superstore have their essential worker storyline cuz it makes sense #or have your first responders mask up when out on the job cuz it doesn’t take away from the story #but so much of it WOULD and I don’t know how to address it without pulling focus #how am I supposed to write my plotline of x finding out that y slept with z if it takes place in April 2020 #and they wouldn’t be in the same TOWN anymore?#how am I supposed to have y get over x by going out to a club and getting drunk when she’s a leftist who would never DARE go to a club #during fall 2021???#how do I still write these plotlines without the pandemic?#I can’t #so I imagine my work is in an alternate universe where the pandemic never happened #but also somehow Taylor still wrote folkmore cuz tolerate it works too damn well for Inez for my characters not to mention it #and I get why other writers choose to avoid it too because it just doesn’t work in their world #and that’s not about denying the pandemic that’s recognizing it was too important to depict naturally #ugh anyways here I go on another rant no one will read #if you actually read all this I’m in love with you

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