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What defines a writer? Are they born or developed? Is the drive to write genetic?

November 17, 2019 No Comments

Is writing in the blood? Are writers born and not made? Can the desire, if not the talent, for writing be inherited? I write, my parents wrote – my mother authored a couple of non-fiction books – and my maternal grandmother was a published author of a memoir, Upheaval. I

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