Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Reading over Writing
I'm just going to be straight forward and say: I'm a bad writer. And because I'm a bad writer I hate writting, except to comment someone's Facebook status. But I love to read, I can sit for hours with an open book infront of me. My favorite author is Nicholas Sparks, I've read four of his novels. If I ever got a chance to meet him, I would ask him how a lame writer like me can become at least an ok writer. We proabably both use paper and pencil to write with, but what he writes is much more captivating and interesting than what I write. I mean, what's the secret? Are people born great writers, or do they have to practice writing excessiveky everyday in order to produce a best selling novel?
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I'd say both, though for a best-selling novel you often just have to master a formula. But in regard to the main part of your question, I do think there is an irreducible amount of talent that one is born with, but then one must work hard to develop it. I particularly think that one can learn how to revise well and thereby write something others want to read. I know this has worked for me.
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