![]() Once you have chosen a life without your vice, it’s important to bring a new perspective to it. The vice is robbing you of aspects of you that you don’t even realize. If you keep the cigarette hanging out of your mouth, there are things that you won’t let happen in your life. ![]() When I say purgatory, I am referring to a form of suffering that occurs where you are spiritually and physically stuck. It’s important to understand that there is a purgatory that happens when you keep a vice around. If you really want to take down a vice you must want a life without it. If you wouldn’t teach it to your children why would you allow yourself to do it? You have figured out a way to accommodate the vice and live with it, even though you know it’s bad for you and you wouldn’t prescribe it to anyone else. Why? Your dark side has an agenda - it doesn’t want to give up the vice. No one cuts directly to the truth and says, “This is what sucks about me and I want to do something about it.” Instead, people keep their vices hidden, complicated, confusing, sad, guilty and dramatic. Most people can’t naturally rattle off their issues to another person with a sense of pride - especially when it comes to their vices or negative traits. The first step to quitting a vice is to own it, say it, admit it. What vice is your little voice talking to you about right now? That is the vice you should consider taking down today. Pick one that best works in opposition to give the biggest arc possible.What are you excessively doing in your life that you know is bad for you? Is it alcohol? Overeating? Smoking cigarettes? Everyone has a dark side and it shows up through our vices. So your protagonist needs a vice/flaw that they need to get over before they can see the truth by the end of your story.
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