Comment by CuriouslyC
1 day ago
What is the inherent value of being able to write well?
Is it not possible that people consider their craft to exist at a higher level than the written word? For example, writing facile prose is a very different from being a good storyteller. How many brilliant stories has the world missed out on because the people who imagined them didn't have the confidence with prose to share them.
Your last sentence is one answer to the question you ask in the first sentence.
That's a common usage of a rhetorical question. You ask it and then you answer it.