You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.
Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
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