The 7 Deadly Sins of Writing!
We’re All Sinners Here!
We’re all guilty, and I hear Hell has wonderful weather this time of year. Which of the seven deadly writing sins do you think you’re most guilty of committing? Wrath; angry at the world, or just the fact that you don’t find inspiration as easily? Sloth; constantly putting things off? Greed; writing solely for the money? Pride; do you have a genuine belief that you’re better? Lust; craving the attention of others? Envy; do you feel like your life is lacking something? Or Gluttony; burning yourself out!Sinners be damned! 7 Sins We ALL Commit!Click To Tweet
1 Wrath
An anger brewing in a writer — people often annoy you, and you know for sure that if they aggravate you too much you’re going to write them into a story, and you’re going to make sure that their death is painful and prolonged. Yeah? Familiar with this feeling? A constant state of Monday Blues? As long as you haven’t started to sharpen your teeth yet on pencils because it’s a more convenient way of sharpening your tools. *wink wink*
So, who hasn’t killed someone off in a story or at least THOUGHT (because thinking about doing it still counts) of the ways in which you’ll kill someone off. I’d also like to think that as a writer, we’re responsible for creating villains, so we’ve got to have some wrath inside is.
HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
2 Sloth
Ever have one of those days where you just can not be bothered? Often because you’re just all written up, and pressing any more keys might give you an aneurysm. Or perhaps you’re a serial sloth, you’re one of those writers constantly saying that they just don’t have the time to write. Or, you’re taking a break from writing. MAYBE you’re waiting for inspiration to hit, maybe you’re doing that while decidedly not moving anywhere for the duration of your day *ahem* week.
Your catchphrase might have been mistaken as “I’ll leave that until tomorrow“.
HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
3 Greed
You want MORE and you want it NOW! You want more people to like your Facebook page, you want more people to follow you on Twitter, and Instagram, and you want more of the little double-tap love heart things. No. You need it. You want to be pampered with attention, oh, and sales, without sales you can’t afford the lavish things you need in life i.e. coffee, and stationary.
Sometimes I just write books for the money. I don’t necessarily love writing, but I do love money, and I guess that’s all that matters when your bottom line is coffee. I tried that erotica thing that everyone was raving about. Yeah, I sold a gazillion books at 99c and earned enough for a low-fat soy skinny caramel latte. That was a good day.
HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
4 Pride
Would you like an actual head with that ego of yours? You’ve got a lot of belief in your own abilities, and you’re awesome about it as well. You find it very difficult to recognise others as equals because, well, you’re just better than they are. You’ve also by now taken it upon yourself to start hashtagging your name in everything that you do, because you want people to know just what you’ve done.
There’s believing in yourself, and then there’s delusion — but you prefer the term “superior” and you’re not afraid of showing it. And if someone else is doing something, then you know you’re going to be pushing yourself to the forefront of that trend. So how’s that film coming along?
HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
5 Lust
So you have a mild coffee addiction, that’s nothing to do with lust, lust is all to do with pleasures of the body… oh, yeah, coffee, chocolate, snacks, you name it, I will probably have a craving for it within the next twenty-four hours, and that’s not a promise to you, that’s a promise to myself. Writing is a craving that give my body pleasure — well, my mind, but still… and it gets quite heated when a write certain characters *wink wink*.
I guess you could say that I lust after people too, and attention. I like to show people everything, but only if it looks good.
HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
6 Envy
I try to keep my jealousy down to about three things a day — some days, I can use them up on one person. But I mean, jealousy isn’t oh wait, you meant writing. Yeah, I get jealous of people. Those people who can type really fast, especially those people who publish a bajillion times a year. I want what they’ve got. Just their skills. And I want their bestseller titles, I mean, how can gorilla erotica even be a thing? I want that originality too.
I get jealous of the popular kids. Like, how do they even do it? I want their popularity so bad, I’d sell a parent just to get half the attention that they get. *pout* kidding, right?
HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
7 Gluttony
Sometimes I don’t know when to stop — like, I’ll write my word goal of 1,500 words per day, but then I don’t know when to stop and I’ll just keep on writing and writing and writing and before I know it I’m in a writing coma and my fingers are all jittery. Sometimes I buy those “couples meals” and it says “FEEDS TWO” on the sleeve — I just take that to mean, “feeds two hands” and I have those!
HOW DO YOU PLEAD? Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Pride, Lust, Envy, or Gluttony? What's Your Biggest Sin? Click To Tweet
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