{"id":3205,"date":"2020-07-23T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:57:02","slug":"amy-sackville-on-lockdown-and-writing-for-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/07\/23\/amy-sackville-on-lockdown-and-writing-for-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Sackville on lockdown and writing for The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/111\/sackville-amy\">Amy Sackville<\/a>, Novelist and Senior Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/about\/creative-writing\">Creative Writing<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\">School of English<\/a>, has written a piece for the <em>Guardian<\/em> entitled &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jul\/14\/writer-lockdown-diary-amy-sackville-creative-writing\">I am not reading. I am not writing. This is not normal<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Amy reflects on the difficulties of trying to write during the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I work at a university and the last months have been the busiest I\u2019ve known, as we respond and support and adapt and plan&#8217;, writes Amy. &#8216;This is not about having an excess of time on my hands to be idled away, and wondering what I might do with it. It\u2019s about what I\u2019ve been doing in the time that I do have, when I\u2019m not doing that job; and whatever that has been, it is not writing. This is all just distraction. From everything. From what\u2019s beyond the flat, the garden, and from this sudden circumscription to those bounds. From writing, and the fact that I am not writing. Because I have not done any writing. (Writing this, here, is terrifying.) Why can\u2019t I write?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available on the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jul\/14\/writer-lockdown-diary-amy-sackville-creative-writing\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jul\/14\/writer-lockdown-diary-amy-sackville-creative-writing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Sackville, Novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, has written a piece for the Guardian entitled &#8216;I am not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/07\/23\/amy-sackville-on-lockdown-and-writing-for-the-guardian\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,21640,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}