I am asked if I can teach someone to write and my answer always is, "Yes, why not." Writing, like anything else is a skill that is learned, just like carpentry, cooking or any other profession, manual or not. What separates is that 'soupcon' of talent and that cannot be taught.
A writer friend of mine was a skilled technician. Her syntax was perfect so were her similes, plot development, description, everything that makes a prose great, except it was so perfect the writing became sterile.
Your syntax maybe wrong at times, you may have an incomplete sentence or have a dangling participle, but your story is alive and grabs the reader. So join me in what I consider a compelling obsession, writing. A solitary and lonely endeavor unlike any other of the 'many artistic professions.'
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