"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

I have been realizing lately that God has blessed me with the gift of being able to write easily. I never thought much about my writing ability before I started school. I've always known that I love to write. That much I knew. However, I never thought of that love as a gift. It wasn't until I started college and was faced with the tediousness of English classes. The classes full of writing that were boring. Not to say they were easy, but so far, they have not been that difficult either. Where my friend struggled with having to write a four-page essay on a character analysis from a short story and took hours to write that essay, I sat down, and completed a quick draft in just an hour and a half. Only two things were pointed out as "mistakes" in my essay. Something that I disliked writing and was not at all interested in.

This post is not to brag about my writing abilities. I still do not have a high opinion on my writing. Note, I said the gift God gave me was a gift to write easily. To write easily is very different from writing well. I have to work hard and focus well to come up with my best written pieces. I have to care. To write well, I have to sharpen the tool God gave me. I cannot expect myself to write well without the work, the caring..it's just made me realize: instead of being lazy about the gift God blessed me with, it is necessary to practice this gift, to use it and work at it in order to perfect it.

Writing takes practice, is what it boils down to.