What's he got that I ain't got?

My skills with the written verse can at best be employed to convey animal grunts. That's the best i can do.. Now this blog was started so that i could hone my writing skills hoping that one day my fiance doesn't mistake a passionately written love letter to be a patterned toilet paper. So now and then when I come up against a line like this written by somebody else -

" Art is too valuable to be consigned to the stultifying chore of chronicling the truth."

- I think i am doomed to die single with all the relatives whispering at my pyre - "I heard that the best he could do was a Hallmark card". Oh, the ignominy of it all.

Now the above gem belongs to one of my favorite writers and the best movie reviewer , Baradwaj Rangan. What does he or for that matter writers like Guha and Tolkien have that makes them so good... they seem to be writing with effortless ease. I just wish that i could articulate something even half as good as their worst output.

Immense jealousy strikes!!

-shri