ESTERBORNE: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Abstract

With the original idea coming to me at the beginning of 2022, I officially decided to embark on a creative exploration to challenge myself as a writer. I often found myself writing happy endings, therefore, I wanted to push my boundaries by creating characters that would go down the path of darkness. Steering away from what I was comfortable with, I knew that the seven deadly sins would provide me the opportunity to achieve what I sought to do. Originally, I had planned to have this long-term project where each sin represented a different genre. However, as time went on, the project took a different shape. Separated into seven short stories, with the introduction setting the foundation, I was able to explore a variety of sinful acts to accurately represent one of the sins. To help in bringing this story to life, I created a tight-knit town called Esterborne. As the backdrop of my project, each of the seven stories focuses on a character I developed who lives within this town full of their own fleshed-out history. By doing so, I had hoped to create an interconnected world that would allow anyone who reads to be fully immersed in, not just the characters, but the town as well.