tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966603611896570261.post1242327986944377489..comments2023-05-05T03:29:51.142-07:00Comments on Everybody Thinks They Can Write: Prince and Me and DeathJoshua Grover-David Pattersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791397639978426181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966603611896570261.post-60384018009078900342020-08-26T10:17:59.514-07:002020-08-26T10:17:59.514-07:00Everyone thinks they can write? Everyone can write...Everyone thinks they can write? Everyone can write - mostly badly. Everyone can learn how to write well - most don't. Learning to write is work that nobody wants to see and nobody wants to pay for. Everyone thinks writing is fun, and it is - until you do it for a living. Then it becomes work. Everything worth doing takes work. We all admit that it takes work, study, determination and intelligence to become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, or scientist. Yet we somehow believe that such is not the case for becoming an actor, musician, artist, or writer. These things come from the spirit, the heart, and the soul. They can not be mastered through repetition, study, trial and error, like becoming an auto mechanic. As long as this belief is commonly held, there will always be a need for skilled writers, through scarcity. notpurfecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02432191681336204474noreply@blogger.com