From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/12/2014 02:55 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
      
   > Does anybody know anyone who sat down at a keyboard and never went through   
   that process, who had talent from God like Mozart is believed to have?   
      
   Thanks for the thoughtful reply, William.   
      
   I don't personally know anyone who just sat down at a keyboard and made   
   it happen.  I /suspect/ that many of those who came generations before   
   us did that, but that's only a suspicion and not anything backed by   
   historic knowledge.  (Well, except that few sat down at a *keyboard*,   
   since keyboards are fairly recent.)   
      
    From the little I've read about J.K.Rowling it sounds as if she might   
   have come close.   
      
   These days there seem to be more "bestselling authors" who have   
   published their first novel and found it to be a grand hit.  Veronica   
   Roth comes to mind here because I've been reading her first trilogy   
   lately, but she went through a college program for "Creative Writing"   
   according to the author-blurb.  (And her work is not really that great   
   imo, though clearly it's plenty good enough to become a bestseller.)   
      
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