Writing About COVID 19 (For Clinicians)

Read your story aloud to see if you've finished it.

Look at how you mark time in your story.

How are you describing the setting in which your story takes place?

Take a look at the other people in your story.

This episode is about looking at "you" as a character in the story.

Decide how you're going to organize your material.

Start editing your piece by reading your raw material.

This is the final "write it" episode. After writers have written their stories down (using these 9 episodes as a guide, or not), they can move on to the episodes on editing, which will help them shape their material into a finished piece of writing.

After writing "what happened," writers need to ask "why."

What is the language of COVID 19 -- phrases, abbreviations, slang?