The Draft

You Don’t Have to Write About the Virus

But if you do, here’s how to find something new to say

Eileen Pollack
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readApr 8, 2020

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A photo of a black microscoped coronavirus against a black-red-cream gradient background.

Welcome to The Draft, an advice column about writing and life from Eileen Pollack, former director of the University of Michigan MFA Program. We’re here to answer your questions about storycraft, writing, and telling the truth.

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Eileen Pollack
Human Parts

Eileen is the author, most recently, of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman