That's not fun - writing's fun. And so they just want to write. They think a writer is just a lucky duck whose words effortlessly, relentlessly flow onto the page without the writer's expending any energy or needing a store of knowledge. When they write, they blither aimlessly and then proclaim craft less important than art. But professionals know that the act of writing can be excruciating, painstaking, and riddled with hazards like dangling participles and split infinitives.
Writing can be lonely, arduous, hungry work that requires more than one type of dictionary.
It ain't easy to make one's work look seamless. When you're making a New Year's Resolution about your writing career, think about what you really want. If you believe you can, I know you can. Happy New Year. Mary J. Schirmer is a professional writer who writes screenplays and teaches screenwriting.