To be a good writer you don't need to be a good speller, you don't need to know good english, and you don't need good grammar. What you need to be a good writer is passion and a "feeling" for what you writing. If you don't feel what your writing or haven't experienced it for yourself your writing probably won't be good or impact a lot of people.
However, almost always the hardest thing to do when writing is to get your point across. You have experienced or know what your talking about, but they haven't. A lot of the time you can't just talk, think, hear, or read about something you have to experience it for yourself.
Chances probably are you can't get them to experience it, so you must explain it in such a way they understand and feel what your feeling about what your writing.
An explanation I once said was I can tell you all about snowboarding and how fun it is to carve down the mountain, but you won't know how great of a feeling it is to carve your way down a mountain until you try it. The person your telling needs to experience it to know what your feeling.
If you can't get the people your speaking to to experience what you talking about and what your talking about has to be experienced not just heard about, you got a problem. How do you fix this problem? You need to write in such a way, with so much feeling and emotion (they need to know its coming from the depths of you) that they either want to experience or learn what you did. Or maybe God can step in and move all the people into understanding.
This is the reason I'm stressing this point so much, is as I am writing this I am really feeling what I'm saying and want you to understand what I'm saying, but I still feel like its not going to get across.
This is why good writers are few and not always so good. Their job is to make you feel like you just experienced or want to experience the experience. Words are hardly ever enough, even when you use your words profoundly.
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