Will the next several years of fiction writing be obsessed with COVID?

Yes. However most book stores and libraries will still be closed. You would have to get from Amazon or on an eBook like Blurb.

Personal diaries will be a gold mine describing how people coped,

I doubt it. I’m sure there will be many but writers choose a wide variety of subjects to write on always. After 9/11, not every novel was about it.

Or has nearly everything been said many times over?

I think of this as another WWII. There will be books about it, and the quantity and frequency will be the same as books about WWII.

I have no idea. Is that what usually happens? There is a big event and then a lot of fiction is written about it?

I guess maybe you will see an uptick in pandemic type of stories since more people will relate to it.

I was thinking I haven’t heard much about how this is affecting the dating scene. Someone might want to tell that story. Are young people still hooking up like before? Are older single adults just not giving a damn about dating at all in this environment.

I agree with the bird. The non fiction studies of the pestilence will far outnumber the novels centered on the event. It will indeed hover in the background of those books staged in the present era, like Trump or the opioid epidemic.

I’m been wondering if some sitcoms will involve a quarantine in their show. I’m sure some will.

Stories about a global pandemic that shuts down society? That stuff’s been popular for years now.

Steven King, was on NPR the other day. He was asked about how/if the virus would affect his writing.
He mentioned that he had a new book coming out. The book was based in 2020. Two of the characters were on a cruise ship. He decided to go back and change the book, so it was set in 2019…

Darth makes a good point. This type of scenario, has been popular for a while now.
I watched Outbreak, last week. It was made in 1995… I hadn’t seen it, in many years…

For sure there will be more than a few but I don’t think it will reach the level of “obsession” where most fictional books would be about the pandemic.

Certainly there will also be a few movies and docus. Just last week I proposed to members of our small indie movie group to write scripts and shoot their own short films with the pandemic as backdrop or main subject.

There will be a remake of A Bug’s Life

Mine won’t. I tend away from mainstream.
There have been so many already. The eighties were so post apocalyptic I thought I might just open a vein.

I’m sure there will be some but will they sell?