The Obligatory Grittiness of the Aspiring Writer
There’s a pot of gold at the end of your writing rainbow, you’ll just have to battle beasts before reaching it
Great writing, can it be taught or is it a natural-born talent? This is one of the most asinine (but popular) debates there is about writing. So let’s bury it right here and right now.
You did not pop into this world with a Parker fountain pen in one hand and a Moleskine in the other, pondering the power of love and a compulsion to write about it.
Writing is a human construct, an agreement between the members of a group on how they communicate with each other. We are taught language, letters, punctuation marks and grammar, therefore, writing is a learned skill.
We get better at writing through learning and what we can learn, we can continue to improve — as long as we keep a hold of our mental marbles.
But there’s an itsy bitsy teeny weenie polka dot probliimi with our desire to learn. Let me tell you about it now.
Anything that people want to learn can be packaged into a product and sold. Demand meets supply.
And boy oh boy is there demand. Here’s a statistic for you, 81% of Americans want to write a book. If we take the US…
