The Coronavirus causes an awful illness, and has many negative effects on human society.
Staying at home and staying away from other people does, though, mean that people have more time to write.
In the Guardian’s Books Blog, David Barnett writes that some literary agents are seeing the number of manuscripts they receive rise. Others are receiving more queries by email.
Agents and editors have more time to read, and they are ploughing through their ‘slush piles’. Most manuscripts will be returned, but a few will make it into print.
Isolation and writing