Is there 'raw talent for writing?

Is there 'raw talent for writing?

Or does practice really make perfect?

i wasn't good for the first 3 years, i'll tell you that much

There’s now raw talent, it’s either practice or experience. Most great authors served so you could do that, but back then the enemy wore uniforms so it was more civil as civil as war could get

What's experience? Does reading vast amounts of books count?

Do you ever write words for the sake of the prose and flow? Without any plot or structure?

I've been doing this occasionally but im not sure if it's beneficial

I write poetry mostly, I'm just now starting out with short stories.

>Source: NYT - 'Can You Make Yourself Smarter?'

Yeah kinda, but you should be going for first hand experience too. Like if you’re making a book about hobos, you should dress up like a hobo and live the hobo life for a week or something

he's just lying all the greatest authors wer

Same actually.
That's true, but I want to write about the Gods, and God without comming across as a loon.

Were what

well then, big thing is to make sure you have the sonnet form down. it'll help you with everything you write. this is coming from a dude who doesn't really like sonnets that much (but writes them a decent bit)

Both you chickenshit little limpdick

I typically write stoned desu, and most of my stuff comes out with a decent flow.

I have no formal training on meter, prose or rhyme.

nice, authoritative you really slapped that faggot around right from the first

>Bobby "Fisher"

well learn it, i write free verse mostly, but i did a sonnet a day for a month and it the difference was fucking huge.

Thanks will do.

Talk to some men of the cloth from different religions then guy, read so mythology and religious texts

"Amadeus W. Mozart"? That must be a joke.

me on the right

>1 in 30,000
Wew, these "genii" aren't even that special.

hope you do, it'll be hard to make sense of meter at first, but it'll irreparably make you more sensitive to rhythm. and a successful volta teaches more about tone than anything i've ran into. just don't put too much pressure into them to be much more than servicable unless you find a passion for it. it's easy to lose tens of hours fiddling with one.

How does one even test Mozart for IQ? Did he have to turn rhombuses in his spare time? It seems like a socialised ideal anyway tbqh desu

Where are these stats from? How many people are actually taking iq tests and where is the standardized iq test that all these phd grads are taking?

GRE scores are probably translatable into IQ scores. Can't answer those other questions tho

these are made up stats for retards by retards

140 IQ's aren't 10% of the human (or American) population, that's absolutely fucking absurd

I do and thank you

>Don't know algebra 2 because shitty teachers
I hope not

>IQ of people before IQ testing existed
Dropped

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It says 143+ is 1%.

This graph implies there are no people with an IQ lower than 100

As is the case with every other pursuit, talent is the most important requisite.

>iq
Not science.

>IQ as a measurement of writing talent, or talent at all

Dropped

>Mozart
>Pic of Beethoven

>+121 college graduates
>ten precent graduate college
Wrong.

IQ is a myth. STEMspergs are not intelligent.

But over 20% have an IQ over 115.