We live in a time when there seem to be more writers than ever, and best of all lies in the fact that possibly many of them didn't even know they were until recently.
A reality that triggers the eternal debate about whether the writer is born or made, if we were all predestined to publish or if our passion for typing still lies dormant somewhere in our soul.
Vision and lyrics
One night, someone decided to write down those secrets that he never confessed to anyone on paper, realizing that he was feeling more relieved. On the other side of the world, a traveler sat in front of the sunset and analyzed the environment to capture it shortly after in his notebook. More than a skill, writing is about expressing a thought, raising the everyday to a vision of its own.
This is the main reason that leads writers to type or put their ideas on paper, although we are never sure when it all began.
Many writers already filled notebooks at an early age and became child prodigies, cultivating an art that, unlike others, never required a title as it happens with dance, painting or the fine arts. It is an informal, ambiguous art.
Other people, on the other hand, chose different paths to realize that, at a certain moment, they had the need to tell the world something, whether it was through a first glimpse of belated inspiration or a literary workshop to which they went out of curiosity.
What we should be clear about is that, despite writing and being a journalist or editor, the writer obeys more personal and universal motives: that of a gift whose origin, whether premature or late, is due to multiple nuances whose common trait reside in create something totally new, based only on our own ideas.
Or at least, to "steal time from whatever it takes to sit in front of a computer and hit the keys until the right words appear", as the writer Claudia Piñeiro said.
What do you think?
Best regard.
I have the idea that the writer is born, it is a hidden tendency, what happens is that some discover it early, or develop it early, others later and it may be very late. I believe that the courses on literary techniques stimulate that desire to write but they do not make the writer; If you study it, the better, you acquire good knowledge, but school is not strictly necessary to create a literary work.
Carmen
I think that in a school where there are good teachers, a passion for reading is awakened. It is born with the seed, but the tree has to grow strong and robust to bear good fruit, In addition, the personality influences a future writer a lot, Generally an introverted person, has a world of ideas and feelings that needs to be put on paper and do so the future writer arises. All those who write do not achieve fame and that is the difference. Some will be recognized as the best and others will be forgotten, but even so, all have been able to put their most intimate secrets on paper. Then the constancy ends the work.
I do not believe that a person is born with such virtues; in fact, it is a great lie and a historical hoax. Alberto Piernas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was not born a writer. For me, a writer becomes, of course, channels it with the experience of life and the cultural-wide-knowledge that he acquires: which is hardly achieved by means other than reading. I would say that reading is the first step and the last!
And can you be a writer without knowing how to write? ... I personally think that everyone who EXPRESSES a FEELING and is capable of TRANSMITTING IT is a WRITER!
Some writers are born. But most are done.
Some people are certainly born with a talent for writing, you could say that it is something unborn. But if that talent is not put to work it is useless. It will be a latent talent, wasted
Because writing is a trade and, as such, it needs to be learned.
As someone points out in the comments, you need to read a lot, paying attention to the use of words, the development of the characters, how the story is presented, etc. And it is also necessary to write a lot, because it is practice that makes perfect.
But write in a conscious way, trying to get out of the comfort zone, striving to do better and better, overcoming defects and exceeding our own limits each time.
That work, which will cost some more and others less, but without which it is almost impossible to achieve anything serious in writing, is what makes us say that a writer is made.
Greetings.