Sydney-based writer sporadically blogging about writing, life, and dystopian moments.
Once I moved through the initial shock of the pandemic, I thought it would allow me to dedicate more time to my writing. At the beginning of 2020, I had my first short story published, and while an online anthology launch is a particular kind of awkward, I was on some level relieved to think that maybe this was it; maybe I was on a trajectory to become a ‘real writer’ now. Then the pandemic kept going.
I keep adjusting the year in which my near-future cli-fi fantasy novel is set. Firstly, because novel writing is a much longer process than I’d naively anticipated almost a decade ago, so 'near future' is in fact, now. And secondly, because the world in which I’ve set my novel is meant to be slightly futuristic in an apocalypse if we don't act now kind of way – but every time I look up from my writing, it’s coming true...
1. They provide excellent customer service from their living rooms COVID-19 means a lot of people have to work from home, in tricky circumstances, including but not limited to while taking care of multiple children under the age of ten. But when I rang my bank to cancel some cards, Kind Kylie answered, chatting to... Continue Reading →
One day, the story of the time I had to write my own termination of employment letter because the world experienced a pandemic will be funny. Right? I actually thought nothing could possibly get crazier about the world after the political mess, climate crisis, droughts, bushfires, floods and cyclones that brought in the year. What an idiot I was.
Samantha Todd 