What gets your juices flowing?

[EmeraldKitten]

I've been wondering.
Yes, there's the absence and then the reappearance of our flighty 'muses', but what else helps?

I find that when I drink, I can write and write. Why is that? Does it lower my inhibitions, and enable me to fly free?
Or is it because drunks don't shut up?

(I hesitate before submitting something, because I'm afraid it isn't good. I've read some really really great stuff on this site. I feel I can't measure up.)

I like being alone when I write, (for that reason.) I'm afraid someone will walk in, see it, and laugh. (No one ever has, but it's the thought that counts, lol.)
I like smoking, sitting here staring at the screen and thinking.
I like being relaxed, and preferably, having an alcoholic beverage in front of me.

Any thoughts? Comments? Opinions?

Feel free to add whatever you like.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I have a character I really like, and I love writing about him. His friends are almost as colorful as he is.

Writing also gives me opportunity to listen to my collection of Country & Western from the old days. Flatt & Scruggs play the Carter Family at the moment. Mother Maybelle is in the recording.

 

[rgraham666]

I need some passion in my life to write. My writing flows out smoothly when I've got passion inspiring me.

I lost that for a while. Now that I realize it's missing, it's coming back.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

I figured getting laid regularly would help my 'creative juices' but it hasn't.
I guess I'm too busy having sec to write about it LOL.

 

[knitedreams]

I mostly write late at night or early in the morning while I'm having my chai tea at Starbucks. It's because my mind's between wakefulness and sleepiness, chaotic thoughts that are generated through the day or kick started by walking into work first thing don't seem to touch me when I'm a zombie. Allows my imagination to run free.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I write when I'm around people. Busy cafe or while friends are about doing things. I don't know why really... I kinda dig them chiming in, I like bouncing ideas off of people or getting a brainwave watching people do stuff.

 

[Edward Teach]

I need my mind to be fairly clear, not clouded by a lot of heavy problems. When something serious is bothering me, I can't bring myself to do much of anything that requires concentration let alone write.

 

[English Lady]

early mornings get my juices going. I think it's the having time to myself thing that helps and my brain just works better hen I first wake up.