Hello there fellow quarantine companions, and welcome back to Writer’s Talk! Sorry it’s been a while since my last post, a lot of “things” came up. “Things” that I’ll be talking about with all of you in this post as I have nobody except my family to talk to( after a couple of weeks of just talking to them, I think I have finally reached clinical insanity). In this post I’ll be talking to you all about the latest news on me and the future of this blog. I hope you all enjoy!
As you all know by now, I usually like to keep things light and fun of this blog, but for today’s post I have to be a little bit more serious because something really serious happened in life recently. Two weeks ago, my uncle, Sohaib Sultan, Chaplin of Muslim life at Princeton University and author of The Quran for Dummies, was diagnosed with stage three bile-duct cancer. This was/is probably the worst news I have ever received in my life. I have always been very close to my uncle and I’ve always known him to be a great man with a lot of love in his heart for other people, so when I received the news that he had been diagnosed with this disease, my heart sank. I’d like to make a post dedicated to my uncle, my relationship with him, and his journey so far in the next couple of weeks, but for this post all I wanted to say about him is that I love him dearly and hope that his treatment along with the rest of his life will be easy and painless. Other than this, I’ve been okay and have been keeping myself occupied writing, reading, and learning. I’ve been able to finish a large chunk of my book and have been able to almost completely finish my movie script that I’ve writing for the past four months!
As for the future of this blog, I plan on writing at least one post per week. Most of the posts will be about what we can learn from different movies, books, and/or plays in regards to world building, character development, and writing in general. I’ll probably also make separate posts expressing my opinions on those movies, books, and/or plays. I was thinking about maybe making a news-update-video post similar to John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube videos. That I’m a little more hesitant on, but if you guys think that might be a good idea, then I’ll do it.
Remember to stay safe! Thank you for reading, and remember to wear your pencils!