Most people have stories to tell. However, not everyone knows how best to tell their stories. Writing,say, a book of fiction, requires discipline, and experience. Here below are some basic considerations.
A. Native talent + experience = creative
Feeling + (controlled) speech = poetry [Note 1]
No talent can fulfill itself without strict control
Capacity for unremitting toil (one thing at least Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy have in common).
B. The need to read.
Two, three, or four books on the go on one's bedside, backpack or in one's pocket, etc.
Perhaps a factual book on physics, anthropology or history.
Certainly a novel, a play and short stories - contemporary ones to let you know what the trend is [Note 2];
but buy the classics [Note 3]
Note 1: Any expressive literary reality.
Note 2: One can get a reading list from local newspaper reviews, national dailies or by visiting the local library
Note 3: The classics are considered dense, and denseness can only be taken in small doses. After a chapter, say, of Rabelais, try a scene from Shakespeare, a poem from Yeats, a chapter from Sophocles 'Oedipus Rex'.
The next instalment on basic considerations will be on (c) contemporary writer's need for the classics and (d) writer's aim