What is the difference between craft writers and instinctive writers?

I may have to walk you arround the block to get you to see my point. Let's begin, what is a craft? For this discussion let's agree that it is a learned skill. The more skilled the instructor and the students desire to know creates a greater level of skill.

Now we've turned the corner and I'd like to introduce a simile that's more graphic than stacking words to create images. Instinct is a knowing that is difficult to explain. Two children are walking home from school. Each picks up a piece of wood and each child has a small knife. Sitting on the front porch of home each begins to whittle. When done, one has a sharpened stick while the other has created a small bird on a branch. The stick holder ask, “how did you do that?” The other replies, “I saw the bird in the grain of the wood and only defined it better.”different medium but I think you know which of them displayed their instinct.

Writing is very simular, you can be taught how words should go together to remain cohesive, (craft), and which words paint the most effective image, (instinct).

In college we did a per review in the English class. I could easily identify those students who had a better education than I, but their compositions lay as flat a lifeless as the paper they were written on.

Hopefully a graphic comparison between craft and instinct.