Some of the most talented authors I know have few or no published works and are crippled by insecurity about how the professional world will perceive their writing. They water down or carve away at their own stories until the unique souls of the pieces are gone. Thread.
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Our another way, teaching those without talent is like building a housing development. You take one blueprint and apply them to all. Teaching those with talent is like cultivating a unique plant in a garden, one that can be guided as it grows but ultimately must develop itself.
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Too many writers with natural talent break long before they publish their first work because their teachers did not see the shape which already existed. Too many untalented teachers break the plant off at the base trying to force it to be a new shape and make it grow their way.
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This phenomenon is by no means limited to writing. Think about your own talents and where teachers have tried to forcefully shape you. Undo the shaping and remember your own form. Then develop along your own path. Others can provide guidance but we must cultivate ourselves.
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