In short: The quality that contributes to someone becoming a writer... is writing, and knowing how to show your work to others.
No one can read your private genious in your notebook. Writing and knowing what things people want to read makes you a writer people enjoy reading. Knowing what to write is something that can be taught and learned.
All crafts, including writing have an element of talent. But we don’t have any way to compare between someone who is talented and someone who is good by sheer will. Why? because most good writers, either talented or hardworking, practice a lot. The constant element is habit.
Why are you asking this question in the first place? I am guessing you enjoy writing but have no clue if you are any good. Let’s imagine all good writers were born good. No trainning, no practice, no writing education. They were just born good. How do you know you are one of those few blessed wirters?
Probably the only way to know is by trying, right? By putting your work to the test. We can't imagine an innate good writer that decided to be an accountant who wrote privately on a notebook. We would never call them writers. Thery are good at writing, but not writers. In other words, without the actual excecution of writing, it is impossible to say if someone is a writer or not. It is impossible to become a writer without writing. It is impossible to become a writer without the test of the public, the readers.
Writers bear the pain of showing their work.
Writing is a skill that can be learned. It is a skill that can be learned even by those who have an affinity with words. And you can take this for a fact, the best writers out there, wrote frequently, most of their time. So you can have for a certainity that talent or no talent, writers write.
So write anything and put it out there: Quora, twitter,, Medium, a blog, IG, a flyer. Write, put it out there. Get feedback, go again.
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