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9210149 No.9210149 [Reply] [Original]

Is the art of writing skill-based, or talent-based?

>> No.9210195

>>9210149
Skill based, though some people are better with words than others. Build your vocabulary and learn another language or 2. You'll expand the way you articulate yourself.

>> No.9210205

Skill is Technical so like a copywriter.

Talent is just how gifted one is at a skill.

>> No.9211204

>>9210205
skill is just how good your talent is.

>> No.9211211

>>9210149
Talent based and enhanced by skills
Just fucking think about it, if you had 80IQ you could still learn to do a lot of skilsl but you're not going to write a good novel

Anyone who says skill based is just a retard clinging onto false hope

>> No.9211223

>>9210149
Yes

>> No.9211281

>>9211204
>>9211211
Wrong

>> No.9211297

talent is a meme. it only needs the right opportunities early on to push you into the right direction and the satisfacion from being better than your peers in a area will keep you motivated enough to get even better. that obviously doesn't apply to genuine autists with savant syndrome. but that usually comes with it's own set of disadvantages.

>> No.9211309

>>9210149
It's going to suck if both of those things aren't there.

>> No.9211333

>>9211281
t. retard clinging onto false hope

>> No.9211357

>>9210149
This is a very cute cat. 10/10 would pet.

>> No.9211379

>>9211211
t. 80 IQ

>> No.9211419

Of all subjects, writing is one of the most talent based. That and composition. Yes, it takes hard work to make a great work, but you need talent to be able to make it in the first place. Artistic sense and creativity is innate for the most part. If you are innately talentless, no amount of hard work can make up for it. Look at DFW for a prime example of this. Innately talentless and not artistic (more AUtistic), he tried ridiculously hard to create a artistic masterpiece (Infinite Jest), trying to make up for his lack of aesthetic sense with random quirky facts and structural games, but ultimately peaked at mediocrity, albeit a bloated and frantic mediocrity. Don't be a DFW, it's just ridiculously embarrassing.

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9211426

>>9211419
Quality post

>> No.9211719

>>9211281
FACT!

putting the word FACT! at the start of your sentence makes it true, even if it isn't! FACT! and you are WRONG!

>> No.9211787

>>9210149

You can learn to write technically good text, but that alone doesn't make your ideas worthwhile.