I tried very hard to think about something to blog about\nthat wasn\u2019t related to Coronavirus and failed miserably. Whatever way you look\nat it, none of us are leading normal lives. How many of us have moaned in the\npast how nice it would be to have a week or two when we could press the pause\nbutton on our busy lies to catch up on all the things we would love to do but\ncan\u2019t make time for. From all I\u2019ve been reading lately, things haven\u2019t worked\nout that way. True, a few million cupboards have been tidied and a fair amount\nof spring cleaning done but not much else. Watching a stack of films on TV\ndoesn\u2019t exactly come under \u2018the things I wish I had time to get round to\u2019 list.\nTwitter is full of posts from writers who are finding it difficult to write and\nothers are finding it difficult to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where it not for the lockdown, I would now be in the Azores\non my lecture cruise. Strange to think that it\u2019s actually only just over two weeks\nsince it was cancelled \u2013 it feels like a very distance past. In last month\u2019s\nblog I wrote about how busy I was preparing the history lectures and how\neverything else had needed to go by the wayside. Now I\u2019m wonder if I\u2019ll ever\nget to go on a cruise where I\u2019ll be able to give those talks in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also mentioned in my March blog how Undercover Geisha <\/strong>was\nalmost ready for publication. Sadly, it\u2019s still no further forward. I\u2019ve been\ntoo busy. I\u2019ve been planning some home-alone lessons to send out to my yoga class\nand also sending members of my writers\u2019 group some exercises to help stimulate\ntheir creative juices! I adapted each of them on the creative writing workshops\nI do on my lecture cruises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As we all face the prospect of many more weeks – possibly\nmonths – of self-isolation, I’m convinced there are a great many people out\nthere who might be looking for something to fill their time and would appreciate\nsome guidance on how to develop their writing skills. For this reason, I\ndecided it might be a good idea to put together the workshops in book form and\nput it out on Amazon for anyone who might be interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Creative-Writing-workshops-2-709x1024.jpg\")
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