Patience, resilience, and frequent engagement. That, and several years of working at it, are what it takes to be great at your craft.

Take a great writer, for example (not me).

To become a master writer, one has to write. Over. And over. And over.

“The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint, the greats were great because they paint a lot.”  – Macklemore

A writer might need to write 10,000 spectacular stories before some 100 of them connect, which might be good enough to gather, organize, and form into a book.

Like the ivy on Stone Row at Bard College, your craft must both engulf, and symbiotically make beautiful, your entire existence. If your work is not a reflection of you, it is not your work.

10,000 of your worth-being-told stories before you get 1 book.

Total immersion.

Start writing.