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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Guys, he's trying to provoke you... to upset you with an abstract question that has no concrete answer (and that he refuses to provide himself).
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More likely he had no idea what he was talking about when the thread started, and this was his way of asking without actually having to admit to being ignorant.
Inspiration is the first spark that gets the thought process started. The one that makes you look at something like a photo or a situation across the street and ask yourself, "what on earth led up to that?" and immediately realize, "oh, of course, this or that would!"
And if you take that spark, fan it and feed it, then you can get a story out of it, if you can be bothered to write it down. But that takes more thinking and work and writing, and without all that effort, the inspiration was kind of wasted and useless. It's perfectly possible to be hit by inspiration all the time and never create anything. It's also possible to create without that first spark, if you want to and know what you're doing.
Inspiration, whatever it is, makes it easier, but I doubt it's necessary.