Some of us believe that good writers simply sit down and the words just come to them. Some believe that writing is a frustrating experience. Others have a special talent but it needs to be nurtured.
Let me share a story about one of my students in an English class who has no idea that she has a raw talent of transforming imagery into words.
The lesson was a poem entitled "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats. I read the poem to the class. I read it again and again. I asked my students to visualize and encouraged them to put on paper what they saw.
One student caught my attention. Her efforts were lame but I saw something she didn’t. She had a raw talent to create. I told her that she has a very special talent that will take her to a very nice future but it needs nurturing.
I sat her down after school to read some poems. I read it again and again until she had learned the most important lesson one could ever learn about writing. She have learned to visualize and to transform imagery into words.
It is true that some were born with a hand that could yield a powerful pen. Others were born with a special talent that needs to be nurtured.
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