Okay folks, we are now in quarantine mode. Do you know what that is? It is The Last Holiday mode. It is use the good china, light a fire in the fireplace, sleep as late as you want, attend to the bucket list, embrace forced retirement mode – – And for goodness sakes, write 2,000 words a day!

WRITE! Writing is up there on my must do daily list – right there with hike and play the piano – right there as an essential activity on the Things You Can Do Solo list. Best of all? It is something else you can do with your hands -before you wash them and after you wash them.

This is what you have lived for, planned for, saved for and longed for time out of mind. Get to it! Pick up that quill. Open that laptop. Write that novel. Write that short story. Write that letter you have been putting off. Address that postcard. Write.

I am not going to tell you to get off the internet because internet is where most of your audience is right now. The libraries are closed. The bookstores are online only.

This was a perfect storm and you are called to navigate it, finally shaken from your lethargy.

Write.

And be ready. The libraries and bookstores and publishing houses will not be closed forever.

Be prepared. Be ready. …Now, where did I put that sidewalk chalk?