Writing Percentages

Writing is 50% skill, 30% instinct and 20% originality/creativity.
     You need the instinct to let it flow and create realistic characters, but you need the skill to string words together in sentences and paragraphs and stories that make sense. The originality and creativity are needed to make it yours.
     Why fifty percent skill? Because not only do you need to be able to string words together, but you have to make it have a tone. Not only that, but you have to know how to do dialogue, formatting, spelling and grammar, setting and knowing what you're talking about--plus a lot more.
     Thirty percent instinct: you've got to know where you want to go and how to make it flow. You've got to know how people react to situations, how to make each character unique and different, how situations and problems effect certain aspects of people--you have to know how each of your central characters will react in any given situation. You've got to know where they'll go, what they'll do and why in any given place. Know what makes your character tick; what sets them off.
     Twenty percent originality and creativity: you can't just take someone's story line, put in different characters and call it done. The originality--you've got to have your own twists and places, characters and quirks. Creativity--you've got to get creative with it. Know what you're talking about. Make your characters fun and likable; that takes skill, but it also takes creativity. Creativity is key in creating your own world. You've got to know how to describe something. You have to create your own objects and places, and you need to make them real.
     In simple terms I'd put it at this: writing is 60% skill and 40% instinct.
     In complicated terms I'd put it at this: writing is 30% skill, 20% instinct, 10% creativity, 10% originality, 10% experience, 10% knowledge and 10% insanity.
     However! You aren't just born with that instinct. You have to build it up with your knowledge about writing and the parts attached: punctuation, grammar, spelling, formatting, and so much more that can't be defined as mere characteristics of writing.
     Now let's test your writers percentages. Given several characteristics, what kind of character(s) can you come up with and what story would you put them in?
-Boastful
-Prideful
-Miserable
-Sly
-Childlike
-Immature
-Confident
     You can use more than one or all of them, whether on one character or multiple. It's your choice as a writer what you create. Have some fun with it.