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Great writers and orators are born, not made. In just the same sense as musicians and artists. Naturally all of the above hone their skills with practice, but
by networkimprov 7y ago
Great writers and orators are born, not made. In just the same sense as musicians and artists.
Naturally all of the above hone their skills with practice, but the great ones started from a different baseline.
- throwawayjava 7y agoYeah, but I don't need great writers. I need people who I can trust to given presentations to clients, executives, or directors of other divisions of the business. I need people who can communicate clearly in writing with clients/stakeholders. I need people who can write good commit logs, comments, and technical documentation for other engineers. In the extremely limit, I need people who can write a white paper or research paper. I'm not looking for the next Dickens or Fitzgerald.
- strken 7y agoHow can we tell the difference between great writers who are born, great writers who end up on the edge of the Bell curve through random decisions during childhood, and great writers who are deliberately raised to greatness? Taking you literally, I can't see any reason why greatness should be determined solely at birth.
- pm90 7y agoDid those Great writers learn writing in the womb? Which language are they good at writing in and how did they learn that?