Lust - An intense and
uncontrollable desire, usually sexual in nature.
I bet you're wondering from this description how lust could possibly affect your writing and thus make it into
this article?
This might be the most tenuous of the 7 Deadly Sins of Writing, but it may also be the most common.
Consider this, whilst love is something different people experience in varying ways, there are common strands usually agreed on by most as loving traits. Lust on the other hand is deeply personal, uniquely individual and rarely explained by logic or reason.
This might be the most tenuous of the 7 Deadly Sins of Writing, but it may also be the most common.
Consider this, whilst love is something different people experience in varying ways, there are common strands usually agreed on by most as loving traits. Lust on the other hand is deeply personal, uniquely individual and rarely explained by logic or reason.
If you were to create a
character based on someone you have lusted over, you may struggle to
convey what's so lust-worthy about them. Imagine writing a book
whose sole purpose is to make the reader lust after the central
character, only to find your description of them just isn't doing it
for anyone else.
Without the loving
concepts of trust, respect, kindness, companionship, chivalry etc,
the audience may struggle to relate to the object of the author's
affection. Worse still, if the author spends too much time lusting
after the character they've created they're likely to neglect other
important elements of the plot or character development.
The Erotica genre is
certainly en vogue at the moment, countless new authors are cropping
up across the globe to tell their tales of debauchery, but they would
do well to remember that lust is an undefinable quality. It takes
skill to really get into the psychology behind intense and
uncontrollable attraction, but whatever you write it certainly won't
be a one size fits all solution!
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