I'm someone that is naturally creative seeing as I grew up in a family that is pretty much into designing and building stuff [i](I'm a cabinetmaker, mum was an art teacher, sister is an art teacher and jewellery maker)[/i], so I tend to find that if I start the imagination ball rolling then I can get to a point where I'll begin to plot up characters, scenarios and even story plots. All that's then left is to plot them down on a page and I've got myself a written post.

So I have the character in my head, the scene I want to write, and now it's the tricky part of getting into the mood...

I cannot write unless I am in a fairly quiet room, a tricky task with a bit of a loud family. Listening to music is sometimes alright and occasionally I will write a post which is quite in tune with the current song I'm listening to but if I hear any lyrics it will tend to throw my writing out of whack [i](A reason as to why I listen to non-lyrical or foreign language stuff)[/i].

Playing around with words also helps get me into the mood too. I discovered the word "minacious" recently which means [i]"menacing; threatening"[/i] and it's fun when I can create a sentence that uses such a rare word. It wasn't even in the Firefox Spellcheck so it feels like a sense of discovery, leaving me to wonder what other words I can insert into my writing.

So yeah, if I'm on a creative spell I'm usually going well. That's why stagnant roleplays and having my crap days really take a toll as I'm not thinking, I'm not creating, and I tend to not feel like putting in the effort because I'm not designing and learning anything new.