Writing When Under the Weather: A Covid Post.

Things had started off so well. Last Tuesday, I wrote about 1500 words in my new WIP (Work In Progress). Listen to me using fancy terms to describe doing some writing. Still, I thought that 1500 words was a decent enough amount, and I was looking forward to getting more written the next day.  

The next morning I didn't feel right, a bit achy, a tickle in the throat, although that had been there for about a week. A bit of a cough. At first, I thought, maybe it's a cold? Then, as the mind likes to play tricks, I was reminded of the aches and thought, could it be flu? I doubted it, but it didn't feel exactly like a cold. Feeling lethargic, as the day went on, writing was put on one side. Then I thought, could it be Covid?

I'd avoided it so far. I also had some test packs and decided that I might as well use one, at least it would eliminate covid, as I expected it to be negative (don't know why). So, I did the test. The instructions indicated what a positive test would be, and it would take up to fifteen minutes to confirm either way. It actually took about half that time. Two red bars indicating positive. Oh dear. I began to wonder where I had picked it up. In the previous week, I hadn't been around that many people, so I didn't need to contact anyone to warn them. 

Now, it's the sixth day, and the only good thing about the last week is that I did get some reading done, although most of the time I felt too lethargic or listless to even read. I didn't even think about doing any writing, although having Covid has given me an idea to develop within the story that I was writing. In one of those strange coincidences, the last thing I had written was how my main character would need to be careful to avoid catching something serious, given the options for treatment were no longer available.

So, this is the first I've written for a while. It would have been nice to report that in the downtime of being sick, I had written a lot, but that's not the case. I'm now getting back into it, and hopefully, as things improve from here, I will get a move on and write more.