How important do you feel it is to incorporate your life experiences into your writing?

Much as you try, you cannot help doing so. Since we are the sum total of all our experiences and education, we naturally write about what we know and want to understand. Even fiction writers utilize that which they "see" in others and in the world.It is pretty much the way of creativity!

I do because I enjoy sharing my opinion and my experiences. Most of my hubs are educational or entertaining and are true stories.

Writing for me is the Echo of my heart and the emergence of my soul...I can't write as honest as can be if I don't feel the words I have to say. I have to go a very deep contemplation first before expressing my thoughts... I need to feel the emotion and embed the words in my mind so I can utter the verbiage my heart wants to say...

I try to incorporate real life experiences in most of my writing. That's why I joined HubPages.com.

Personally, yes. I have two profiles here on HubPages. One is monetized and the other is my unmonetized creative outlet.In both cases, I find my the vast majority of my hubs are based on my life experience.

For me, it makes for better writing.

Probably one of the most important things is to let yourself be a part of what you write. Literature is supposed to explore the human mind and the world around it, but the only mind (... I think) you've ever been into is your own. Writing will incorporate your life, whether you want it to or not.It's better and easier to let it.

Learn the ticks of people around you and use them. Remember houses you've been to, and create the setting. I think there is a line where something from real life in fiction is no longer okay, when you use someone's identity without permission (for publication of any sort).

There is always creative non-fiction as well, which just is you and your writing!

I do take different situations and then make them fiction... true life does make great writing..

Writing comes real it you are writing a topic that you know. The things you are familiar with are the things you experienced. How can you write about depression if you didn't experience being depress?

Even if you do some research and get ideas from other source, words don't always come easy, but if you know what you are writing by heart, your fingers are typing like crazy because you are trying to catch up the many ideas formulated in your brain. That's me and that's why I enjoy writing what I know and I experienced.

Writing for me is sharing my ideas about certain matters that catch my attention and which I have something to share and contribute. Given this premise it is but natural to express my feelings and mention my experiences as integral parts on the subject in hand. Each person has experiences unique to him.It is important that my readers will know who is the writer; it helps him to understand the reason why I write the way I do concerning certain matters.

I feel it is very important. If it is not based on my experiences it is just theory or someone else's life experiences. I do not write fiction.

Most of my research involves me doing things like jumping rope every day for two weeks and recording the results. When I did a hub on gaining muscle quickly I gained muscle quickly.

People who write biographies amaze me. They stick to the facts about the person and do not incorporate their experiences. How do they do that?

Even when I wrote about a fictional character, there are unintentional similarities to me and some of my experiences. When I read books, the ones I remember most and like the best have life experiences that I can usually relate to in some form or fashion. Even when I read 1776, I related due to my military background.

I feel it is important to incorporate life experiences into my writing for 2 reasons. First, free therapy! Second, people who choose to read what I write may relate and find what they read enjoyable, informative or down right disturbing with a side dish of sarcasm.

I don't think it's important. Some of the best writing/articles are what they are because they're well researched and provide more information about the subject (in one place) than most of the other stuff out there offers. If someone's going to use that approach to his Hub, however, I think it's very important that he put together a Hub that isn't a re-hash of the same stuff that's found "everywhere else" (and often on a site that's far more authoritative than a writing site).

Knowledge of the subject or (as Google describes it) "intimate familiarity" with the subject can help a writer recognize the best resources for research; and knowledge of the subject can help a reader recognize a different angle from which to the approach the subject. So, intimate familiarity with a subject never hurts the writing, whether or not the approach will be "completely objective and from research" or "from personal experience" (with or without research included).

Having said that, I think personal experience can offer a writer a view of the subject that can make a difference in whether or not the material is unique. The thoughts/feelings we have when we go through something can be things we'd never have imagined without going through it. We learn.

We see more of the angles to something. Including personal experience can increase the chances a reader who has been through something similar will think, "This person knows what's it's like. " It can also help increases the chances that a reader who hasn't been through something similar might think, "Wow.

I never realized that's something someone in that situation might think/feel. " Including personal experience (when I've done it) has helped me write from a more unique perspective. Something else is can do is offer something different and unique, rather than the same re-hashed stuff that's out there and available to anyone who searches.

So, I think personal experience is always valuable to a writer, but I don't think including it in some writing is always important. In fact, with some writing, it's important not to include it.

Some make superb biographers, others make superb high fantasy writers, others are great crime writers, historians.

Scriptwriters (mostly) don't use their life experiences, though some scenes come from their life (experience).

It is imperative to incorporate, at least your perspective, if not a specific experience. Writing is art, good writing is crafted, passionate and alive. The writer breathes life into their work only when they are genuine, using their insights to add wealth to their work.

As far as listing personal experiences, such as examples, into a narrative or description, my personal opinion is that is it overdone a bit. A personal story should be added when it can be valuable. Anything that can be taken out of a particular work, and not affect that piece, should be taken out.

Less is more, and I say that having just written over two paragraphs to answer a simple question :).

Writing my life experience allows me to connect with audience sharing similar stories. It is important that a writer connect with a reader.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.