Some people believe that success in creative fields, such as painting, fiction writing, andfilmmaking, primarily requires hard work and perseverance. Others believe that suchsuccess mainly requires innate talents that cannot be learned.

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Some people believe that success in creative fields, such as painting, fiction writing, and

filmmaking, primarily requires hard work and perseverance. Others believe that such

success mainly requires innate talents that cannot be learned.

The romanticized life of a creative, such as a painter or writer, often includes a figure whose talent is innate. The imagined artist writes or paints when the inspiration strikes and from that inspiration easily comes art. Editing, repainting, and planning does not factor into this vision. This often leaves people thinking that one can not learn creativity -- it comes from within and if you are not easily struck by creative ideas, then you can not become an author, painter, or filmmaker. However, this view is unrealistic. Most people, even the most talented, must apply themselves and diligently work to complete their project.

For one thing, even a writer that is born with a strong imagination, still needs to set aside time to write. They have to sit down in front of their notebook or computer and write out the words that their imagination is producing. This talent may seem innate, but often what falls on to the page will need editing and revising. Most books we read are not untouched words by the author - there have been peer readers and editors that have helped revise anything from sentence structure to plot holes. Some of these authors may have been rejected early on in their career, based on their writing abilities, however they likely took classes or joined writing groups. Through feedback they received, they improved.

Many universities offer classes in the creative arts and there is a reason for that. Some may find themselves a hopeless painter, but find that after a class, they actually are able to master watercolors. There are entire educational institutions dedicated to art, such as the Sotheby's Institute of Art or the Courtauld Institute. While one must likely produce some decent work to apply, the institutes accept an individual to train them to be good artists. One example of an artist who learned via hard work is Henri Rousseau , a French painter. He was self-taught and did not learn until he was in his 40s. He worked as a clerk and would use his spare time to sketch paintings in the Louvre. Yet despite his late start, through tenacity he became a talented and admired painter.

That being said, the idea that success requires innate talent is not without merit. Many people are born with a vivid imagination or a talent for painting. This likely makes their path into the arts easier, since they already have an ability to create. Yet, even then they must apply hard work and perseverance. The author Louisa May Alcott would write for up to fourteen hours a time, yet she also held that one must rest fully at night so the brain could be awake to write in the morning. Similar to any job, she believed in working all day and being well rested.

In conclusion, hard work and perseverance is essential to the success of a creative person. Someone not born with talent can learn the creative arts through diligence and one who is born with talent still needs to work hard in order to produce materials and sell them. Even with great talent, if one does not do the hard work of painting or writing regularly, that talent will not be transferred to paper.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, may, so, still, then, well, while, in conclusion, such as, for one thing

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2591.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 538.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81598513011 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81610080973 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44233203506 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531598513011 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 798.3 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.7809321044 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3448275862 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5517241379 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65517241379 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174672538789 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.048028862849 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562956036352 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103800636897 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0674520544664 0.0667264976115 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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