what does it take to Write

What does it take to be a great writer?

Does it need inspirational events around you? No, I doubt it. The greatest writers are the ones that can spin the mundane into the extraordinary. They tell tales of fantasy while all that is around is banal.

Does it need dedication? No, I doubt it. You may write an hour a day everyday and yet end up with naught. Writing by itself isn’t the art. Expression is. A clever sentence so often catches your eye in the midst of a book. Like a lotus sprung amongst the dirty pond of letters all around it.

Does it need one to be extremely well read? No, I doubt it. A great scholar need not necessarily have the best command over the language. An articulate speaker, a witty companion, a master of jousting with words, may know only a fraction of what there is to know about the things worth knowing.

Does it need time? No, I doubt it. Unless you believe in the adage that a monkey given enough time and a typewriter will almost surely type out all of the Bard’s works. Mathematically probable, but so unlikely to that it’s practically not possible.

Does it need everything? Yes. I reckon that’s the answer. Great writing needs you to be inspired. To be dedicated to the desire to express your story. It needs knowledge — not on everything, but on some thing for sure. And of course it needs time.

But most importantly, it takes your everything.