Writing Talent

I hate to hear ignorant people tell me that writing is not a talent. If writing is not a "real talent", than I suppose that the fools who spout such drivel don't listen to music, watch television or films. They obviously don't read.

I can take you through the galaxies to skip in star dust and deposit you on the distant moon of a far off world where anything is possible. I can show you the world beneath your own feet in a way that you have never imagined. The beauty of a sunset, of the city at night, of a married couple who have spent the last sixty years together.

Likewise, I can take your worst nightmare, shove it into your eyes, cause your heart to burst our of your chest, leaving you fetal in a corner begging for release. All I require it a pen and paper.

So writing isn't a talent? Neither is breathing, but you're doing it!