We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in it's all there at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual...
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it you are lost.
