I also believe every person on this planet has talent for at least one of the skills used in writing. I’ve started a list of the skills I believe a writer needs: passion (not a skill, exactly, but very important and some people seem to have a talent for passion), patience, perseverance, imagination, wordsmithery, psychology, empathy, marketing (you might not be selling a product, but you are selling belief. If the reader doesn’t believe what you say, they aren’t going to read it. For that, you must sell it), researching, technique (tone, verb usage, adjectives, etc.), and grammar.

You can have talent for those skills, but you also must learn how to use them through practice and research. I think of natural talent like dirt you wish to grow a garden in. If you have a natural talent, you have great dirt to grow that particular skill in, with plenty of nutrients, air, and water retension to help it grow. If you don’t have good soil forthat skill, you can still grow a plant there, it just won’t be as healthy or as fertile as somebody who was born with good soil or natural talent.

Does any of that make sense?

Anyway, that’s my opinion about talent. Have a nice day and thanks for the encouraging article!

Your prose does look a little disorganized, actually, but it isn’t that bad, and a few more years of practice would take away a lot of its awkwardness, but if you want a project done soon, a collaboration could do it.

If you want to try it out, just hop into any fiction forum and say you want to play a group story game. Propose any starting scenario and see who picks it up. If the game has more than a few players, you’ll be able to see which people’s styles and attitudes mesh best with your own.