One Little Spark of Inspiration...
 

I'm always looking for ways to get the creative juices flowing, especially when tired or "blocked".

I found these awesome "handouts" designed by an award-winning design artist, and they've been very helpful so far.

What do you do to spark your creativity?

Listen to music.
Force myself to produce. Anything. Just to get over the inertia of doing nothing.
Make myself accountable to someone (e.g., pair up with someone and commit to sharing some form of output every day/week/whateve)
spark up something else.
learn something

I take a shower. For some reason, I get some interesting ideas for stories or whatever in the shower. Sometimes while I shave. Sometimes on the john.

Just sayin'.

I just solved some problems I was having with some writing while taking a nap.

Yeah, I have problems writing while I nap too.

I've never had much creativity and I've never gone out of my way to spark it.

Or rather, the area in which I am most creative pretty much requires me to just sit back and wait for the situations to arise.

Most of stories and poems I compose in my head come while I'm driving. Or sparking. Or while out in nature. But mostly while driving. It usually happens that i see something or someone while I'm driving around and a story forms -- usually rather quickly. I probably only write one story for every ten that pop into my head, and most of those never see the light of day beyond Word on my computer. I'd write more but I'm lazy, and busy. In fact, I'm so lazy i usually don't edit my stuff. I just let it flow and hit save, or submit, or whatever.

LSD always does the trick for me.

^That's cheating.