Sloth, Maybe?

Behold, the deadly sin of sloth! I have allowed myself to be derailed from writing my screenplay because I am playing a strategy game called Sid Meier's Civilization VI. For those not in the know, Sid Meier's Civilization is a series where you pick a civilization (Europe, Africa, Asia Minor, East Asia, the Americas, etc.) and usher them through various, social, technological, and political ages.  You can go from a humble chieftain presiding over a tiny encampment to, conceivably, a space age civilization that colonizes the Moon, Mars, and perhaps elsewhere. It is an engrossing game.  It is world building on the scale of JRR Tolkien.  Correction:  It is world building on the scale of world history. I have for example used the personality of Cleopatra to lead Egypt from a plot of land to a city state.  Then I evolved to multiple city states.  Then I evolved into a nation state / empire.  I built research facilities for medicine, space travel, and a myri...

A s the subject line says, I have decided to give up writing.   I do not have the discipline or the desire to work on a single line  of dialogue day to day.   Whenever I see a video about writing craft on YouTube, I do not watch it.   I think it’s because I feel ashamed about not writing for  large gaps of time. My day begins with watching what is called a “livestream” on  Youtube.  It is about stream of consciousness nonsense that  I watch passively.  I then watch something on Netflix and take  a nap afterwards.  Then I walk to a small town to drink  a cappuccino at the local pizza shop. After that, I take the bus home.   I don’t scribble a single l ine, not one letter, not even a keystroke. I dedicated myself to making one entry per day on my blog.  It has  been countless weeks since I have done that.  The blog has been  inert since January. I recently watched a video about an auth...