Is Writing Really a Product of Experience or Inspiration?

[Mmaduabuchi Eze]

When I read Billy Springers' narrative of the Vietnam war as a soldier, I began to ponder on a post that stated: a successful writer must pass through states like personal crisis, debauchery, frustration, loss of identity, depression, rejection. And I remembered great writers like Shakespeare, Blake, Pope, Dickens, Milton, and the difficult lives they had. And I can't but wonder, is writing really a product of experience or inspiration? What do you think?

[McAlpine]

I am convinced that writing is a product of both personal experiences and original inspirations. Personal experiences are the mental background from which new ideas are formed, and original inspirations must come from the moral substance that is necessary to make the mental background. Personal experiences create moral substance, and original inspirations spring from associations between memories, intellectual constructions, and networks of intelligence.

Accumulations of personal experiences are necessary to have a rich, realistic, mental background. Moral substance is created from the mental background, and drives original inspirations. A void cannot provide anything for original inspirations. There must be a mental foundation from personal experiences. A subjective relationship exists between personal experiences and original inspirations that is necessary to write fiction and non-fiction with good qualities. The relationship is somehow physiological in the central nervous system.

Additionally, discoveries of new personal experiences predict new original inspirations. In fact, the right new personal experiences cause new original inspirations to fit into expectations. In other words, new original inspirations can be targeted by new personal experiences. They can be programmed to change habits of writing such as styles and voices. Mental hygiene and behavior modifications can be combined to create personal experiences, and original inspirations can follow that dictate a new, better way to write.

[Paul Link]

i think it was Is Really

[George Okello 2]

I can say it is a mix of both experience and inspiration.For others however,it is sheer stroke of genius.They just have it in them