Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 6:21:46 GMT
There are those who have always aspired to make a career out of writing - creative writing, here I'm talking about living as a novelist - and those who are content to see their books published somewhere and those who, again, would just like to supplement their salary with the books they writes. In short, the reasons why we write and continue to write are many and everyone has their own. However, some time ago I started asking myself the question "why do I write?" and Salvatore's post gave me the final impulse to talk about it. Why do you write? Because you are talented . Some say that talent doesn't exist, but in my opinion it certainly does. Etymologically the word talent derives from the ancient Greek τάλαντον, meaning scales.
He then moved on to indicate a coin. From here, by metaphor, we arrived at the best qualities of the intellect , such as mind, will, but also desire, desire, inclination, ability, ingenuity, gift, natural Special Data grace. And isn't it perhaps this, all these elements together, that form talent? Isn't this what lies behind every form of art? Now, it's a long way from here to thinking you have talent. It's true that you need self-esteem to write, but it's also true that you need a bit of healthy modesty and even self-criticism. But here I don't want to use the word Talent with a capital T, but with the one that contains its meanings: we write because we want to write , because we want to do it, because we have this inclination - like painters and sculptors and musicians have theirs - because we have this ability - which allows us to invent stories and write them.
Whether we like them or not, whether they can be improved (and they are) or not - because we have enough ingenuity to build a story from nothing, to recognize a story from nothing, because we have this gift, yes, knowing how to write is a gift , just as it is knowing how to speak in public and entertain hundreds of people for hours, just as it is a gift to know how to sing, just as it is to instill trust, to teach, to innovate, because it is a natural grace, that is, which makes us pleasant to others (grace and charity have the same etymology). Why I write Because since I was a child I have felt the desire to do it . I had a diary in which I wrote down my books to write, I drew many rectangles that represented as many covers, with the title and the sketch of a drawing. Childish projects, but still important, because from that moment writing has always been present in my head. There was a journalistic parenthesis as a kid, I enjoyed writing an article on a "condominium news story" (someone had removed the elevator doors...) and creating two magazines. There was a poetic parenthesis, in which I wrote over one hundred poems and even the first 400 lines of a poem.
He then moved on to indicate a coin. From here, by metaphor, we arrived at the best qualities of the intellect , such as mind, will, but also desire, desire, inclination, ability, ingenuity, gift, natural Special Data grace. And isn't it perhaps this, all these elements together, that form talent? Isn't this what lies behind every form of art? Now, it's a long way from here to thinking you have talent. It's true that you need self-esteem to write, but it's also true that you need a bit of healthy modesty and even self-criticism. But here I don't want to use the word Talent with a capital T, but with the one that contains its meanings: we write because we want to write , because we want to do it, because we have this inclination - like painters and sculptors and musicians have theirs - because we have this ability - which allows us to invent stories and write them.
Whether we like them or not, whether they can be improved (and they are) or not - because we have enough ingenuity to build a story from nothing, to recognize a story from nothing, because we have this gift, yes, knowing how to write is a gift , just as it is knowing how to speak in public and entertain hundreds of people for hours, just as it is a gift to know how to sing, just as it is to instill trust, to teach, to innovate, because it is a natural grace, that is, which makes us pleasant to others (grace and charity have the same etymology). Why I write Because since I was a child I have felt the desire to do it . I had a diary in which I wrote down my books to write, I drew many rectangles that represented as many covers, with the title and the sketch of a drawing. Childish projects, but still important, because from that moment writing has always been present in my head. There was a journalistic parenthesis as a kid, I enjoyed writing an article on a "condominium news story" (someone had removed the elevator doors...) and creating two magazines. There was a poetic parenthesis, in which I wrote over one hundred poems and even the first 400 lines of a poem.