A couple weeks ago, one of my friends said that "If you're a writer, you were born a writer, and you shouldn't need prompts to help you start." I strongly disagree with that for two huge reasons.
One, what does born a writer even mean? You don't pop out of the womb and start penning novels, but you do learn to appreciate every word for what it's worth, and then being to want to create your own. I didn't start writing up until a couple years ago, but that doesn't mean I'm any less of a writer than someone who's been doing it since they could read, or someone who started yesterday. We are all equal.
Two, just because you do write a lot, doesn't mean you don't need prompts to help you. I am actually one of the worst writers for school, because I don't know what to write about without creating a whole new world in my head, a world that I can't fit into two double spaced pages. Prompts help me figure out what I should just begin to spill words out about, and hen bring me back to where it needs to be. Sometimes, I do hate the prompts, but I still appreciate them being there.
Overall, this statement is just so off-putting. It's saying that if you didn't start writing the moment you could hold a pencil, then you can never write, and that if you need help starting, you shouldn't write. I can understand why my friend said it, because she wanted to go along with the conversation, but I feel like it's similar to someone casually being racist or sexist or homophobic. This was a bit of a rant, but I needed to get it out of my system.
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