Comments on: Writers — Born or Made?

By: Diana de los Santos

Diana de los Santos — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:23:29 +0000

Writing is a SKILL. Therefore it can be LEARNED by anyone, and anyone can be good at it. Writers can be MADE. However, there will always be SOME people without or with less training than the others who will find it easier to write and who can write BETTER. These writers were BORN writers. And in their case, writing is not merely a skill. It’s a TALENT. Thus, there is nor rigid answer to this question. Some writers are made while some are born. I was born.

By: FilipinaBride

FilipinaBride — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:16:44 +0000

Hi. I love to write also. I write short articles about anything that interests me, but I’ve never had this chance of writing a novel. I wish someday I could.

By: Karen Tintori

Karen Tintori — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:57:54 +0000

Ooohh, Pat…thanks for sharing that delicious story! How cool that you remember the moment and the words that spoke to you so life changingly.

Somewhere in my family, we have a history of writers. Just haven’t found those ancestors yet. But I have a passel of screenwriters, journalists and journalers in my family — story tellers all. A cousin’s daughter just won a journalism award here in Detroit, and it makes me proud.

Some vocations and avocations are not accidents.

By: Karen Tintori

Karen Tintori — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:53:40 +0000

You’re right, Curtiss Ann. While we have the passion for words, and for writing, we have to work at being writers.

And the best writers of all are the ones who are not obvious in their writing. Who just write beautiful prose or poetry that reads effortlessly — even if they worked their fingers to nubs crafting it.

I think the greatest gift would be to know another language well enough to be able to write well in that language/culture.

Wow. I should live so long!

By: Patricia McLinn

Patricia McLinn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:27:29 +0000

Karen, I ran into that same issue at the library. I am fortunate enough to have an older sister who used to get adult books for me. Sometimes she did it unknowingly , as in when she was home on break from college and studying The Brothers Karamazov. I was in first or second grade and started reading it — thought those people had verrrrry strange names.

As to when I knew I wanted to be a writer: It was reading Dickens’ DAVID COPPERFIELD and his description of Uriah Heep as unctuous. Unctuous . . . Uriah Heep . . . The combination of those syllables still combine to send a shiver down my spine.

That’s when I knew I wanted to put words together to draw as strong a response from a reader.

By: CurtissAnn

CurtissAnn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:40:19 +0000

Writing has always been a passion. I realized this sometime in my twenties. But ‘being a writer’– that is something altogether different for me. I’ve had to become a writer.

Thanks for the great post.