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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Talent and the Creative Process

     Many writers are reluctant to talk about the creative process--that is, how and where they get their talent, ideas, and inspiration to write. Some authors deny that talent is an inborn gift while others ridicule the notion that writers have to be inspired before they can create. While there are a few who are simply incapable of writing anything decent, most people can teach themselves the craft well enough to write for publication.

     Many of the highly literate novel writers born with special literary gifts are, is some shape or form mentally ill or emotionally unstable. A good many of them are suicidal alcoholics and drug addicts. Truman Capote comes to mind.

     Perhaps having some natural ability to write and create is more common than not having it at all. The need to create probably resides in most people. When a reader tells a writer that he can't imagine how one can write a book or an article, some writers may wonder how a person couldn't produce a literary work.

    Authors like to give the impression that writing is extremely difficult, but once you get the hang of it, it's fairly easy. That's the dirty little secret. 

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