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10 Things to Consider When Writing About Obsession in Fiction


10 Things to Consider When Writing About Obsession in Fiction

Elements of obsession can build tension, add stakes, and help define a character's motives. Here, author Kiare Ladner shares 10 things to consider when writing ...

How to write about obsession in fiction - The Fussy Librarian

Author Kiare Ladner shares ten things to consider when writing about obsession in fiction.

How do you write obsession? : r/Screenwriting - Reddit

Remember that you're not writing thoughts, you're writing action. You have to give your character things to do as a result of their obsession ...

10 Things to Consider When Writing About Obsession in Fiction

Elements of obsession can build tension, add stakes, and help define a character's motives. Here, author Kiare Ladner shares 10 things to ...

Say Yes to Obsession | The Center for Fiction

Obsession is a large part of being human, and therefore a large part of writing about being human. As writers, we are taught to write toward our own obsessions, ...

Best way to write obsession? - Creative Writing Message Board

I'd really recommend trying to think of a character whose obsessive tendencies are directed more at an abstract goal or object before attempting ...

How to build an obsessive character that is madly in love ... - Quora

Put your protagonist in the middle of a sh*tstorm. Nobody cares about them waking up, deciding what to wear, brushing their teeth, or deciding ...

The Writing Obsession - Medium

And the words obsessed and driven are good, but what really described her commitment was the word seized. You must be seized by your narrative.

Do you obsess over your characters? - Creative Writing Forums

In the context of writing a book I guess it doesn't really matter what form your passion takes; what matters is the end result. If you write a ...

Writing Obsessions - Books & Such Literary Management

We're told to write what we know, but I say, 'Write what obsesses you.'” Writers are instructed to steer clear of, say, writing a novel about a ...

Writing With a Touch of Madness - Helping Writers Become Authors

I have an obsessive personality. I get hooked on something and it's all I can think about. Naturally, when I have an idea for a novel (one ...

Obsession: Is It a Key Ingredient to a Story's Success?

So, obsession? That sounds unhealthy, difficult, borderline crazy. That's not how I experience it. Writing a novel is the best thing I do. The ...

In Defense of Obsession - Center for Literary Publishing

For me, writing toward my obsessions is not so much writing what I know but writing what I want to know. It's following my obsession down a ...

Don't know what to write about? Write about your obsessions

Once you've figured out the obsession that keeps appearing in your pages, seize it and go deep. It's what you are meant to write about.

Four writing prompts: Obsession - Inventing Reality Editing Service

... must fight off nature's challenges. How do ... Here are four writing prompts for stories that center on obsession. Man vs. nature. Obsessed ...

General: Ways to know you're obsessed with fanfiction. - Writers ...

1. You are constantly tweaking everything about your stories and wanting to go back to fix old mistakes. · 2. You take your pairings/ships much ...

Turning Your Obsession Into A Book | The Brevity Blog

“One of the things I found refreshing [about writing Object Lessons ... And some of the things that are considered disposable and cheap are the ...

Writing and Obsession. On Finding Balance | by The writer's path

Where am I physically? · Where am I mentally? · Am I happy? · Am I on the right track? · Do the people I love get enough attention?

When Is Obsession a Good Thing? - Writer Unboxed

Many stories have been written on the topic of obsession: The Girl on the Train, Lolita, Moby Dick…the list goes on.

10 Things That Happen When You're Obsessed With Writing

Writers will never be satisfied with their work. Like, ever. Even if they think it's good enough at the moment, they will always look back and find a million ...


The Picture of Dorian Gray

Novel by Oscar Wilde https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQd9exHr6EA_4-xh_U9xl3M5kNqzEf-pymZVd_vsHID4K7tACuQ

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Gulliver's Travels

Book by Jonathan Swift https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpY6UwSweJywIFv5Uv1N8MaAGAoJqSzv2D-NL4Mr-TdUV_5-2l

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Play by Kenji Ōba https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXcyjyXdRUt9naBjOXuImFlRsnqsUzCgeBGzdqIpCgPdlHwaYp

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.

The Great Gatsby

Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbSF6gO78cx31SLBbDfeRcazJoDOx7PlGwdNps2LEgJWoehu4e

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

Frankenstein

Novel by Mary Shelley https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOMyKdErEFh7EkrIgOQqvoF-oqjrfs13H61kZ7uN2wp1krQQOb

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Wuthering Heights

Novel by Emily Brontë https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQejnFNAKVo6GXiIvVisZNF3eQYHXqUCquuFC3VxXXpJBL8wv-k

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell".