Are you obsessed?

As I get more in touch with the artist who is living inside me, I've come to realize that I've never been obsessed with writing. Stephen King once said he had a "marketable obsession," but I've never felt obsessed about writing. I've never felt like I needed to stay up into the wee hours of the night in order to finish a book. In a way that's kind of disappointing, because I think being obsessed would fuel me to write more and to write faster. But I have to honest and admit I don't have an obsession. However, I do think I have a compulsion to create stories. I've been doing that all my life, I just rarely sat still long enough to write them down as a kid. It was only when I was in my twenties that I thought maybe I should try my hand at writing. Before that I was too busy playing sports, but at night, when things got quiet (I was an only child), those stories would always be percolating around in my brain. Perhaps I can grow my compulsion into a healthy obsession. Now that would be great!