Effort

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  by Ogelthorpe Q. Sighvatson

  Created on: March 30, 2009

  Every reasonable person looking at this debate will agree that both effort and insight are keys to writing.

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  by Elizabeth M Young

  Created on: November 24, 2009

  Insight is an intangible gift. Effort is a more definable, and tangible transaction. It is easy to attribute

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  by Julie Kliegman

  Created on: November 10, 2008   Last Updated: June 29, 2009

  Great writers rely on effort to craft their final products. Insight is undoubtedly a valuable quality

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  by K. David Ladage

  Created on: August 14, 2007   Last Updated: August 15, 2007

  Insight and effort: these are two complimentary items that, once combined, are far more than the sum

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  by Cyd Madsen

  Created on: December 08, 2008   Last Updated: April 27, 2009

  In the early years of the 20th Century, there was a young man inspired to write. So great was his inspiration

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  by Peta Ealing Cameron

  Created on: July 30, 2007   Last Updated: July 20, 2011

  Do great writers rely on effort more than insight?

  I believe that effort more than insight is what great

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  by Lindsay Price

  Created on: December 29, 2008

  This is somewhat of a trick question as there isn't a third option: writers relying equally on effort

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  by Elizabeth A. Marion

  Created on: April 25, 2010

  Having great insight, or even having great inspiration to write, doesn't matter at all if someone isn't

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  by Gabe

  Created on: January 18, 2010

  Great writers rely on effort. Monumental effort. It's by sheer force of will that a great writer can

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  by Mona Lisa Safai

  Created on: September 19, 2008

  Anyone who chooses writing as a profession does so because they realize writing is a necessity. Within

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  by T.C Leonard

  Created on: August 15, 2007

  Initially, my thought was that an equal amounts of insight and effort go into becoming a great writer.

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  by Carol Gioia

  Created on: July 22, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2012

  The best literary achievements are a culmination of the writer's insight combined with concentrated

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  by Christine G.

  Created on: October 26, 2008   Last Updated: November 02, 2008

  Do Olympians rely more on talent or training?

  What about professional hockey players, basketball heroes,

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  by BT Cassidy

  Created on: August 14, 2007   Last Updated: March 05, 2012

  When reading a piece, the degree and nature of your immersion in the piece depends entirely on the tiny

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  by Douglas Moore

  Created on: August 13, 2007   Last Updated: August 15, 2007

  As a novelist, I would not dare ignore the value of insight. But from my own experiences and from the

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  by Sarah Torribio

  Created on: December 18, 2008   Last Updated: November 24, 2011

  It is true that great writing cannot be taught, and this points to the position that great writers rely

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  by Tracy Bee

  Created on: August 14, 2007   Last Updated: July 14, 2008

  Writers are sophisticated communicators. That much cannot be argued. Indeed, writers are able to articulate

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  by Mary Moss

  Created on: August 15, 2007

  Great writers rely upon both insight and effort. That said, no matter how profound a thought, how unique

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  by Ted Sherman

  Created on: August 13, 2007   Last Updated: August 15, 2007

  As a great, though so-far undiscovered, writer, I can testify that the act of creating great art with

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  by Jerry Curtis

  Created on: August 23, 2008

  Writing is both an art and a skill. The art comes from experience and insight; the skill comes from