New term in your lexicon?

[MidKnight1378]

Just wondering for those of you that write contemporary fiction, will Corona Virus, COVID-19 or Coronavirus become part of your lexicon?

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5343157&page=submissions

 

[BiscuitHammer]

One of my characters, who is decidedly an airhead, has already referred to it in a recent chapter as 'Covidium-19'. Bless her, she tries, but she's a dunce.

 

[KeithD]

I could see I would use the term virus in a work, but probably not as specific as this particular virus. That dates the work too specifically--and unnecessarily for fiction.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I doubt it. While most of my stories are "contemporary" I've tried to never lock them into a particular year or timeframe. The closest I ever came to mentioning current events was naming a specific movie on Netflix that may or may not be there in the future. I'd like to think most of my stories could be read as 2015 as easily as 2025. This year is just an outlier.

 

[litfan10]

"virus" and "pandemic" work fine for me.

 

[LupusDei]

Ready for COVID-22?

Political discussions are not tolerated on this board. That said, yes, there's about ten more of them where this latest comes from.

And, I would say, we now are much better equipped to write imagined future pandemics in contemporary settings. There's a lot of fine detail in this supposedly real world I haven't ever remember described.

 

[Polyacrylate]

One of the plot bunnies that was in my head pre-COVID-19 had to do with a rural community sorting out its views on promiscuity and sexual activity in general while a pandemic ravages the world outside.

If that story ever happens, you better believe the phrase "Social Distancing" will be used.