Am I talented at writing?
Would you trust my answer to that question? What need? If I am a talented writer, you will know quickly enough by reading what I have written.
Now that I've said that, I will give an answer--sort of. I am better than I used to be. At one time I fancied myself a more talented writer than I do now, but ironically, I know I am better now than I was then. I have written some things that are pretty good (and I've written a good deal that I realize is mediocre at best).
Are there others more talented than I am? Far more. Are there some that many consider talented that have less ability than I? Maybe. Writing is a skill that can be learned, but some seem to be born with a knack greater than most. I would consider myself somewhat in that category, but I think everyone can become as good or better a writer as I am.
Not for free though. It takes time. It takes lots and lots of reading, then lots and lots of writing, it takes the ability to humble ones self and take feedback from others, it takes the ability to scrutinize others' writing and find room for improvement, and reading ones own writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. It takes the ability to delete, it takes the ability to start over again and again. It requires willingness to subject oneself to pain, it takes knowing the elements of grammar, it takes a good vocabulary. It helps, though it is not required, to be a good speller.
Do I have a gift? Do you have a gift? If you are able to read this, you are able to develop yourself until you can say you have a gift.
Therefore, I can say with impunity, that you do, whomever you are, have a gift. It may be completely undeveloped, but if God has given you the ability to read this short essay, He has given you the innate ability to be able to write one better.
I recommend, if you have not already, that you develop your gift. Writing, even writing where another might never read, is enormously therapeutic, enormously joyful, enormously rewarding. And when you produce your masterpiece, (and if you begin, you will produce it) please let me read it, and I will help you show it to the world...