By Jose R. Gonzalez
I really like Hoagland's point of view on obsession. I
agree with him that an obsession is a great source for someone’s writing. An obsession is something that haunts you,
bothers you and doesn’t let you sleep. You learn everything you can about it
and become an expert on this topic. That’s why authors have such easy time
writing about their obsession. They have acquired some much knowledge about their
obsession, which it almost feels natural to write about it. I also understand
that writing about the same topic again and again can become redundant, boring
and dull. I believe a great writer can make their obsession their muse and keep
it relevant somehow. If your obsession is love, money, death or anything, all
these things are affected by their environment. I think a good writer should be able to keep
their obsession updated and see how it affects its environment and how it
changes.
I think of my own obsession with death. An easy out would be
to talk about how death cannot be stop.
Just because my obsession is with death doesn’t mean I cannot be
creative and see other ways to write about it. An example would be to write
about famous dead people having tea in heaven or hell and talking about how
they get there. I’m still talking about death but I have taken a complete new
approach. I think this is what Tony
Hoagland what’s going for when he wrote this essay. The idea that your obsession can feed you
inspiration but is up to the writer to decide how this obsession taste and how it can be digested by the reader.
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