[ SECRET POST #1849 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1849 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #264.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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Comments

[wynddancer.livejournal.com]

I totally agree w/you. "Talent" is nothing more than being interested in something and developing the skills to be good/excellent at it. I've read it takes a certain number of hours of practice (approx. 10,000) to learn to be good at something (http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/on-luck-success-and-10000-hours.html for an overview). Most people take about 10 years to get their 10,000 hours in. I agree w/Dean Wesley Smith that it's not in-born and people who think so are wrong.

From DWS's site: "Or one I got the other day. “You have the talent to write fast.”

Well, when I started to get serious about fiction writing, it took me hours and hours to do one 250 word page. Then that page would be so poorly written and riddled with mistakes that it got tossed away more often than not. (Remember, I was working on a typewriter.) Yup, I was a “naturally talented” fast writer. NOT!

Thank heavens for me I came to the realization early on in my life that talent was only a measure of craft at a certain point in time and nothing more.
Yet, frighteningly, parents, teachers, and so many family and friends think that talent is FIXED. If you are talented when you are young in something, you should be for your entire life. Well, sadly, as many have discovered, it doesn’t work that way"

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Indeed.
As embarrassed as I am about the Mary Sue fics I wrote when I was 12, they were how I cut my writing teeth. Now I'm much better at expressing myself and I can branch out into more plots that are interesting to other people.