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What Do You Want? [1]

Fiction [2]
5.22.13

Imagine you are your main character (or just write from your own perspective). What do you really, really want? Now, start talking about that object of desire. Don’t keep saying, “I want X, I want X, I want X.” Rather, just talk about the thing you want, in all its desirable specificity. Let yourself get caught up in all that wanting.
This week's writing prompt comes from Eileen Pollack, whose most recent novel, Breaking and Entering, was published in January 2012 by Four Way Books. She wrote about desire and writing for Fiction Writers Review [3].


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/what_do_you_want [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/get-writing-on-desire