What Does It Take To Be A Writer?

That is a question I heard someone ask my cousin who is a writer. He said first you have to have passion. I was shocked, I thought he was going to say you have to go to school and take classes for learning to write.

So I did a research myself on the internet and that question is what I typed into the address bar. Sure enough, several sites came up and said you have to have passion. One website said that you need passion, practice and study. This makes a lot of sense to me, especially since I do have the passion. Just because I do have that passion doesn't mean I am a writer or even good at writing anything. I need to practice, practice makes progress. I have to study, I have to study really hard because I struggle greatly with punctuation especially, and then describing and showing the story not telling it. I have hope, I am going to practice and study very hard. I really want to write and I'd love to write for a living.

I liked this website (the one below) it had some good things to say I thought.


http://www.betterstorytelling.net/writingtools/whatdoesittake.html