Jim Harrison — American Writer born on December 11, 1937,

James "Jim" Harrison is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some formal education. They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible... (wikipedia)

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.