I think I have a creative streak in spite of no one else having much, or sticking with it. How about you? Read Mae Clair’s thoughts on Story Empire.
Hello, SEers! Mae here with you today as we enter a new month. Happy first day of July!
In June, I raised the question “are writers born or made?” Today, I want to follow up with another question: can the writing gene be inherited?
Think about the Bronte sisters. Neither parent was a writer, though both were said to be extremely literate. All three sisters, plus their brother, played games of imagination as children, possibly cultivating their creative side while dreaming up fanciful places. My earlier post, Are Writers Born or Made, would point to this as their “trigger” moment—assuming the desire to write was dormant inside.
We also have brothers Alex and Evelyn Waugh, known for Islands in the Sun and Brideshead Revisited, respectively. Their father, Arthur Waugh was a biographer (Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning), as well as a literary critic. Evelyn’s son, Auberon went…
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Thanks for the reblog!
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My twin and I are both fiction writers, even though we weren’t raised in the same environment. Bio-dad doesn’t even like to read fiction, so we didn’t get it from him, and Bio-mom… Well, she has a lot of artistic skill, but no imagination/creativity for art or writing.
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Interesting.
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