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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: "Wow, You're a Writer!"[long]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.095609.27336@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 09:56:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.141847.15548@cis.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug17.053027.4524@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Aug17.163129.29183@advtech.uswest.com>
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- In article <1992Aug17.163129.29183@advtech.uswest.com> ken@dakota (Kenny Chaffin) writes:
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- >
- > It seems as if you've bought into the Literary School of You-Have-
- >To-Have-a-gift-to-write paradigm which is absolutely false. Writing is a
- >craft just like anything else--music, mechanicing etc.
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- Yup. Old Tolstoy was a good craftsman. He must have practised a lot.
- Probably been good at fixing engines too if they'd been around at the time.
- Picasso was a dab hand at his craft too; likewise Mozart. Just goes to
- show what a little perseverance can do eh? Yep, craftistry is 99.99%
- perspiration, bugger all inspiration.
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- > I believe publication can be a good indicator of a real(tm) writer but
- >that's not necessarily true either. Writers write. They write stories, poems,
- >songs, novels, manuals, books and plays.
-
- ...not forgetting workshop repair manuals.
-
- Nigel
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