Jacqueline Wilson has said she thinks life in isolation will be good for creativity in writers, but she will not be taking inspiration from the coronavirus crisis to write a novel.
The children’s author and former children’s laureate, known for books such as The Suitcase Kid and The Story of Tracy Beaker, added that some things are too awful for young people to contemplate in their fiction.
She told the PA news agency: “Certainly I think a lot of people will write and I think that’s a good thing – even if you just keep a private diary to express yourself, rather than sort of erupt at irritation with your partner, if you could write it all down it might help. “If you use King Lear as an example (Shakespeare is often cited as having written
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