COVID-19 has changed everything. It has not just changed the way we live - the lockdown. From now on, the people who experienced it will ask whether an event happened before the epidemic or after it.
Novels dated before January 2020 will be regarded as historical novels - just like novels dated before or after the First World War.
I have been writing a set of novels set in the present day. They describe the political situation in the Middle East. Should I rewrite them so they are set after the crisis? But how will the epidemic change the political situation?
The alternative is to write a historical novel. Some time ago, I drafted a novel set during the Roman Empire. I abandoned it because it needed extensive revision. I may go back and rewrite it.
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