There’s one big benefit to experience, actually. One main reason I tell beginning writers who ask (and some who don’t) to carry on to the end.
Leaving out all the others (because they are there) here’s the biggie.
Once you’ve done it, you know you can do it.
There it is. The reason I almost have a story after bashing my head on the wall for several weeks. The reason I didn’t give up three weeks ago and tell everyone that I was a sham, not a writer.
I have finished stories. I knew I could finish this one.
No words from me can convey how important that knowing is in the deep dark of a story that doesn’t want to work.
In the words of that guy from Mortal Kombat:
Yay for an almost-story! *cheers for you* *waits somewhat patiently for the story to lose its “almost”*
*glomps*