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How to Write Original, Novel and Unique Stories During the Pandemic

The pandemic is our reality. It’s just getting started and writing about it is inevitable.

Zita Fontaine
8 min readMar 27, 2020
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It’s been only 16 days ago that the WHO declared the Coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic, and my life has been turned upside down.

The threat that could have stayed an isolated case, remaining in a safe distance has made it to every part of our known world and it is here and it is real.

The number of articles, broadcasts, social posts is countless — for a reason. We are human, we are scared, we are concerned, we are worried about our health, our lives, our future. We seek information and we want to share what we know and what we feel. We connect with others at other parts of the world to make sure they are okay, they are holding up — and we are assessing our own situation in light of others’ stories.

This reality is unusual, new and devastating.

We need time, more information and a lot of persistence to deal with it, to get through it, to make it through the other side relatively unscathed.

Everyone is coping with this new situation in their own way.

This situation we are facing now is hands down the most disruptive thing that has…

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Zita Fontaine
Zita Fontaine

Written by Zita Fontaine

Writer. Dreamer. Hopeless romantic. Newsletter: zita.substack.com Email me: zitafontaine (at) gmail

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