I always keep my eyes open really looking for inspiration. I have done some tattooing, some pottery, some sculpture and lately some shabby shike furniture made from old wood and last but not least my art.

Give me a welder, a scrap pile and a late evening, and junk comes to life.

It could be anything! Nature, a photo, a color. I mostly do photography, but find myself making things I need for it, with bits of inspiration from others. I enjoy doing photography styles reminiscent of that of others, but on a shoestring budget because it's a bit of an accomplishment!

I guess I’m one of the unfortunate. It takes pain heartbreak trauma. Creating is how I purge the negative from my soul. Something tangible and good from the darkness.

A nice, full bodied cabernet, or somtimes a glass of brandy.

Music, and a need to compose and perform.

I tend to respond to anyone who contacts me here on the site. I try to answer posts and offer advice when asked.

Poetry... victories and disapointments alike, used to paint, trying to get my mojo back after 40 years. Songwriting, like Poetry in 2 languages... I do Salsa... I do Blues, I do Rock, I do Jazz. It is my way of healing... I was Forged in the 20 Century. I got ideas for short and long stories, scripts... I am Not Done Yet.

Gloom gets my creativity going. I create ideas!

Being in a hospital, oddly enough. The total lack of stimulation, the days being reduced to occasional doctor visits, and nothing else, does the trick. I always ask for a pen and paper. when I'm there.

On one trip I wrote about 6 or so short stories,which were the basis for a small press magazine I did, "Inexplicable Stories."

TI have had ideas for about four stories floating in my head for years. This last hospital trip, I got my standard pen and paper and realized that I could make a far better story by combining all of them.

And around 2015, I went into the hospital right about the time I had ordered a bunch of jewelry making supplies. I spent the whole time I was there working with such things as arrowheads, amber, bismuth, meteorites and so on, sitting on the side of my bed and putting out what must have been 200 or so necklaces, earrings and rings together. The air stank of E6000, and my bed always had bits of beads and stuff in it.

There's something about a complete lack of stimulation that really gets my mind going.

I like to work with wood.

I guess, with me, it's the challenge that gets my creative flow going. When doing a flower garden, I look at all the challenges that I'm gonna have to overcome to get the desired result. The same applies to Christmas decorations, song writing, home decor, performing, etc.

Lack of sleep. Sometimes I awaken at 3 in the morning and start writing. It has often been a song, but sometimes it is a short story, sometimes poetry. If I have anything important to do in the coming day, it may not be as well done as I like, but such is life.

An idea and the confidence I will do the best I can and I realize my work is pretty good. Believing in the results you will get If your creative genius does not work out, it was good anyway. Just love to create something that was not there before I began

I can find inspiration almost anywhere. It's just allowing myself to be open to it, that's my greatest challenge. That being said, I like to write, paint, and create fabric art.

I never 'try' to get creative, but do leave my mind open to whatever I see, feel, taste or hear, etc. Once I passed an elderly man walking on the street who inspired me to write a poem. another time many years ago I heard someone talking about glasses and contact lenses and I wrote a Country song called 20-20 Vision (I'm not a song-writer by trade, and never tried to sell it, but had fun writing it). I was driving and saw a field of wildflowers in Maine and stopped and spent an hour photographing them. I had a real camera then, not a phone-camera. Took a photo of my son in his raincoat when he was small and got honorable mention in a photo contest.

I actually never know what I'm going to do next - I also bead jewelry, and have sold some - I like to go to Bead Shows and get my inspiration there from the stones, colors, and textures.

I went through a period of doing water colors but that was "emotional" for me - I just painted the way I felt at the time; some were calm and others weird. (kind of like me)

For some odd reason stress gets my creative juices flowing and it all comes out in doodles and writing.

Sometimes, it’s a sunny day and a relatively empty yard! My soon to be grape arbor is going to be like no other Other times, it’s space on a page ..in need of my opinion

PART 1 of your question: Air Hostesses
PART 2 of the same question: Babies (just for religious reasons of course. James

I find my creative juices flowing when I have lots of free time and very little stress. My comedic side expands, my writing inproves, I have more ideas and better ideas in every area, finding solutions to problems comes easier, etc.

Wish I knew - I like sculpture and carving wood.

Making worlds or ideas completely off the top of my head for writing stories or novels. Not only does it inspire creativity, it also allows me to freely create whatever I want. I also sketch certain things that may be in these stories.

That is really hard to say. I like to write blogs so maybe that is one area.

Artwork.