Part of the creative process in writing comes from personal experience; a writer cannot begin writing without inspiration and an interesting story to tell - hence, a writer must embrace the elements surrounding them in the environment and interpret these in way they can be understood by the reader.
If a writer is unable to go out and draw inspiration from a specific environment - for example, a trip to the Galapagos Islands -, an appropiate alternative would be to search images of this environment on the Internet and interpret said pictures in the form of words - as if the writer were in fact experiencing the moment in flesh and bone.
Writers can use pictures on the internet for inspiration by seeing the main points of an image and the details and are able to release their creative side of things...
