If you are witty, I have writing challenge for you, it will be for a good cause. When you have written something, it could be a paragraph send it to me I am trying to put a book together https://francishpowellauthor.weebly.c... Here is the idea, Coronavirus Annonymous
It is a meeting like alcoholics anonymous, where people express their phobias, guilt, regrets, or make accusations; The councilor is called Jennifer. Invent a character? It can be your own character or it could be one from the prompts below, then present them to others in the group. “I am xxxxx” CHARACTER IDEAS A priest who has no visitors to their church A teenager who finds the confinement a waste of time and ridicules the effects of the virus Somebody who met a policeman, having just stepped and was fined unfairly (in their view) A parent with unruly children A frustrated writer, who has writer's block who fears they will get dumped by their publisher unless they come up with a masterpiece An alcoholic who is finding it hard to adapt, (he/she usually goes down the pub, most days of the week) An old woman who has no family and who is isolated An ex prisoner who has just been released from prison and has to adapt to isolation A panic buyer (there could be many) who bought unnecessary amounts of products in a fit of panic A vigilante who has spotted their neighbours breaking the isolation rules
Jennifer “Hello everybody, and welcome to coronavirus anonymous, where you get the chance to get everything off your chest, your anxieties, your frustrations, and how you are managing in these testing times, is everybody two meters apart, nobody has moved their seats I hope? Right remember to cough into the crook of your arm, I am Jennifer and I would like you to share your feelings, who would like to start? Harry Hoarder “Yes, my name is Harry Hoarder and I'd like to admit, to everybody here present, I am a panic buyer, I recently stuffed in my cellar, I have about two hundred toilet rolls, which I can tell you will last Aida, she's my wife and me, 1600 days. I have twenty cans of bake beans, fifteen fray Bentos cans, ten packets of pasta and a fifty kilogram bag of rice. I could go on, I can hardly move in my cellar, but when I watched the news I panicked, I imagined being stuck inside, no food, nothing left in the shops, we are living in a warlike situation.” Jennifer “Thank you Harry, for that, we can understand your anxiety, but don't you think you are over-anxious and taking things a bit too far, if everybody behaved like you, those who can't make it to the shops, would be left with empty shelves, surely this is a time to think about the vulnerable, or health workers working long hours?” Harry Hoarder (sighing) “You are right, Jennifer, I overreacted, I can't help myself, it's my nature, spent my life imagining nuclear wars, asteroids hitting the planet, plagues and pestilence, you name it, I've imagined it.”
I am trying to put a book together
https://francishpowellauthor.weebly.c...
Here is the idea,
Coronavirus Annonymous
It is a meeting like alcoholics anonymous, where people express their phobias, guilt, regrets, or make accusations; The councilor is called Jennifer. Invent a character? It can be your own character or it could be one from the prompts below, then present them to others in the group.
“I am xxxxx”
CHARACTER IDEAS
A priest who has no visitors to their church
A teenager who finds the confinement a waste of time and ridicules the effects of the virus
Somebody who met a policeman, having just stepped and was fined unfairly (in their view)
A parent with unruly children
A frustrated writer, who has writer's block who fears they will get dumped by their publisher unless they come up with a masterpiece
An alcoholic who is finding it hard to adapt, (he/she usually goes down the pub, most days of the week)
An old woman who has no family and who is isolated
An ex prisoner who has just been released from prison and has to adapt to isolation
A panic buyer (there could be many) who bought unnecessary amounts of products in a fit of panic
A vigilante who has spotted their neighbours breaking the isolation rules
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The start of the story is
Jennifer
“Hello everybody, and welcome to coronavirus anonymous, where you get the chance to get everything off your chest, your anxieties, your frustrations, and how you are managing in these testing times, is everybody two meters apart, nobody has moved their seats I hope? Right remember to cough into the crook of your arm, I am Jennifer and I would like you to share your feelings, who would like to start?
Harry Hoarder
“Yes, my name is Harry Hoarder and I'd like to admit, to everybody here present, I am a panic buyer, I recently stuffed in my cellar, I have about two hundred toilet rolls, which I can tell you will last Aida, she's my wife and me, 1600 days. I have twenty cans of bake beans, fifteen fray Bentos cans, ten packets of pasta and a fifty kilogram bag of rice. I could go on, I can hardly move in my cellar, but when I watched the news I panicked, I imagined being stuck inside, no food, nothing left in the shops, we are living in a warlike situation.”
Jennifer
“Thank you Harry, for that, we can understand your anxiety, but don't you think you are over-anxious and taking things a bit too far, if everybody behaved like you, those who can't make it to the shops, would be left with empty shelves, surely this is a time to think about the vulnerable, or health workers working long hours?”
Harry Hoarder (sighing)
“You are right, Jennifer, I overreacted, I can't help myself, it's my nature, spent my life imagining nuclear wars, asteroids hitting the planet, plagues and pestilence, you name it, I've imagined it.”