If stories are not written by writers, who writes them?

We think we're in charge of our lives and our books. We're not

During the worst time of my life (redundancy, divorce, depression) I was introduced to meditation. After about two weeks of meditating, I got a sentence in my head that wouldn't go away ... till I wrote it down. Then another phrase turned up and then another till, after a few weeks, I realised I'd written about 20,000 words of a story. I finally read that evolving story and it was about a chap called George Sanderson but it was my story! I was told all writers need to, first, write their own story and someone did it for me - giving me the words and moving my pen over the paper. Simples!