False dichotomy. This isn't "practice vs innate ability". Your very 1st novel may be a masterpiece; doesn't mean that story was in your DNAhttps://twitter.com/Suuraj/status/910942352579100673 …
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And if your first novel sucks, it is unlikely that practicing writing for 10,000 hours will give you the ability to write a masterpiece
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The more creative a field is, the less correlation there is between deliberate practice and ability. It's imagination, knowledge, curiosity
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depends on the context of "masterpiece". esp for writing, music and other art forms
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First step is not writing a novel, but many short stories, poems, essays; in personal diaries, blogs, school papers. First crawl, then walk.
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If you are not dedicated and work hard, you will fail
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Practice effectively, neither one flop nor one masterpiece implies you shall never write masterpieces in the future. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-brown-hoffmeister/reading-great-writers-wor_b_1830842.html …
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Not agree. There is no universal law which governs all cases
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Ok, yes, just writing without thought for 10K hours wouldn't do much...
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...but don't you think by spending 10K hours in something, you'll inherently have to think about it deeper than most?
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