The write-up talks about “Content Writing - 7 Deadly Sins that you Make (And Ways How to Rid of Them)”. The article is narrative of my personal experience as a content writer.

1. 7 Deadly Sins That You
(may) Make in Content
Writing (and Ways How
To Rid Of Them)
From SEO content writing to blog and website content writing as well as creative to
script writing, every aspect of writing revolves around style, creativity and your passion
for it.
The vicious circle of content writing is that you can’t write well until you are well experienced
in the field, and you can’t get the required experience until you maintain a forever consistence
and perseverance for the same. I call it, the reciprocal system of getting benefited – you work
for your writing, your writing works for you!
Means, in absence of the attributes such as dedication, passion and perseverance,
content writing is not very much reflective to one’s excellence, precision and
proficiency at it. Therefore, there is always a void conspicuously reflective from your
written content and that needs to be filled in to accentuate your expertise as a writer.
Among many things that dampen one’s progress to achieve a level of excellence in
content writing, I have laid down seven of the deadly sins, that according to my own
experience, people (may) make.
I would like to solicit your feedback for the article.
Pawan Kumar Jha
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2. 1. Procrastination
Procrastination is
common writer’s
ailment. It is the
cankerous disease that
hollows your ability or
aptitude for writing from within. Ultimately, there develops a conspicuous lack
of the expertise or excellence from whatever things you write. Means, you do
not sound very impressive or expressive. There is always the sound of dullness
from your written content.
Do not be evasive. Take out your time and write something of great value. To
make sure that procrastination doesn’t intrude into your time set aside for
writing, make a resolute and determined effort to stick to your timeline.
Everything crumbles before a strong-willed commitment.
2. “The Spirit Is Willing, But The Flesh Is
Weak” Attitude
If you are one of the individuals, who are
reluctant to continue with writing that you
ought to do, then cross my heart, you sin as
a writer.
In other words, slothfulness is one of the
deadly sins that you may make unwittingly or
wittingly. In due course of time, you develop
an attitude of inertia and reluctance that
would dampen your progress from achieving
an expertise in writing.

3. Hence, avoid showing laziness and slothfulness and stick to writing.
3. Lack Of Self-Confidence or
Dunning–Kruger effect
Either of the above is sin in writing.
It is not what you think, but your
action that counts. And your action
is the reflection of your confidence
level. If an action accompanies
enthusiasm, gusto and zest, it
conveys your high-spirited selfconfidence level.
Similarly, over-estimating your
writing ability is a sin signifying
you’re obsessed with (Dunning–
Kruger effect) your ungainly {futile}
superiority complex as a writer.
Your writing is the yardstick for
your self-confidence – the way you
write is the way your confidence is
conveyed.
Lack of self-confidence and overestimating yourself are therefore
deadly sins that you ought to avoid committing. It’ll take you away from
achieving your long-cherished dream to be a successful (content) writer.

4. 4. Limiting your Creativity
Limiting one’s creativity as a
content writer is one of the
other deadly sins that must be
relinquished for good. You
know that you can write well
on something, but that is not
the way you would acquire
excellence in writing.
Compliance is therefore a
deadly sin that obstructs your
progress from being a good
writer.
Do not limit yourself. Always
extend the circle of your
creativity as a writer for this is
one of the fundamentals that
matter. Limiting your creativity
is a deliberate effort to shy
away from expanding your
horizon in the field of writing.
It is also a sign of your
insincerity to the commitment
to improving your writing.
How would you do expand, if you limit your creativity?

5. 5. Futile Comparison
No matter how hard you try
or however assiduous
practice you put into an
effort of being a physicist,
you can never compete with
late Albert Einstein.
Why?
Because what Albert did and what you are doing will have the mark of
distinction in terms of success, fame and accomplishment.
You may perhaps exceed well of what Mr. Albert achieved earlier in his life’s
golden days or lag behind, but you will never be at par with him comparatively.
In other words, comparing yourself
with someone is an act of insulting
your own ability. It eventually turns
out to be your mental subjugation to
the influence of the person being
compared.
Stop comparing. Do not compete
with other writers. Nobody is senior
or junior. Every writer is gifted and
so are you. Just avoid getting
engaged into futile comparison and
move ahead by the talent hidden
within you.

6. 6. Oblivious to Audience
This is seriously one of the
deadly sins that most writers
make oftentimes. Do not forget
your potential audience as they
are the ones you could possibly
turn into a potential customer.
Always be mindful to it.
Write for your audience.
For example, a topic on “health benefits of eating bananas” is of no use for the
audience searching content on “How to avail home loan easily in India”.
Knowing your audience is, therefore, a necessity, an unavoidable necessity
worth-sticking to.
7. Using Too Many Words
(bombastic, verbose, you name it)
Using too many words to express
one thing that could otherwise be
expressed well in few words is one
of the other deadly sins that most
writers commit.
Verbose writing is just annoying.
Today is the age of short, brief and point-worthy style of writing that readers
love reading. Superfluous style will render you no benefit or positive feedback

7. from your readers. So, keep your word count as minimum as possible without
affecting the quality of what you write.
Aside from the listed above, sins in content writing, such as;
 Making grammatical mistakes persistently
 Writing before preparation
 Hastiness
 Impatience
 No solicited feedback from audiences
 Using expletives
 Plagiarizing/spinning contents
…are worth avoiding at any cost.
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The above-written article has previously been posted on my hub page, titled, “7
Deadly Sins That You Make in Content Writing.”