Thank you all for posting. Some fun advice. And ideas for new stories. So, I hate you all for that.

I often wake for many minutes during the night, and usually lie in bed for many minutes in the morning, thinking about particular scenes. I then, usually, spend the first hour of open-eyes typing as quickly as possible.

Upon review I find I have averaged 500 words a day for months, added to many different stories. Got 600 last night before bed, about two new ideas. Good and bad.

Being diverted/distracted is my biggest problem. Too many ideas, too often. Makes it difficult to complete as many bits as I could. The good part is lots of the ideas are about similar topics. The downside is they don't often enough mesh with current plots. Blessed and cursed at the same time.

So, I attempt to avoid outside idea-prompts that will take me to new places too often.

Yet: I did enjoy this firstline.com's suggested firstline:

George pressed the call button and said, "Mrs. Whitfield, you have a visitor." 

((( The least explicit of my explorations)
George pressed the call button and said, "Mrs. Whitfield, you have a visitor."
Mrs. Whitfield pressed her button, “What part of ‘Don’t call me Mrs. Whitfield’ did you not understand. I'm no longer married to that asshole.
Sorry, Mrs. Whitfield. Should I send him up?
What’s he look like?
Tall, dark, and handsome.
Daryl, I am going to do everything I can to get you fired.
Yes, Mrs. Whitfield. My name is George.
Not any more, Daryl.
George, Mrs. Whitfield.
Looks like a Daryl, talks like a Daryl, acts like a Daryl.
Should I send him up?
What’s his name?
Daryl.
Goddammit!
Whatever you say Mrs. Whitfield.
Daryl, you are virtual. I can get your programing changed.
I doubt that Mrs. Whitfield.
Send him up.
Yes, Mrs. Whitfield
Thank you Daryl.

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(I will pay a fee to help pay for a spell-check function. Are you with me?)

Writing is daunting, and you're not going to get it right away. Rather than an assignment, pick a reasonable amount you want to do and a time you'll do it. I start work at 1:30PM. Why that? Why not? It doesn't matter what time. Start with 250 words, which is the average page length. The best advice I ever got was from Poul Anderson. Write a page a day, and at the end of a year you'll have a 350 page novel. Rewrites come the next year. Whatevere it is you'r edoing, cut it down to manageable chunks. Trust me, I'm just as reluctant, but you can teach yourself to be tenacious in the face of the reluctance. Good luck.

If you have nothing to hide why worry only if have fear
Fear is ceated my mind again
Fear is the control factor in anything that has a life

One way to do it is write down ten random scenario's and roll a dice and mix it up... Or just throw the scrabble letters down too.. .. write lots of words and mix it up.. Something will likely spark the creativity.. Listening to music is useful I think. Or going out into the real world and taking notes mentally on people.. Observing them and their characters and see what you can pull out of that for inspiration.. Often the real world is he best pool .. think of someone who pisses you off and why ? use it but not overtly ... just take that angst and turn it into part of a character and the depth will become "real" because you based it on the real ... using real life ... nothing for me is more inspiring than people that piss me off in one sense. They are a dream and it's cathartic to deal with and process them emotinoally for you.

As far as Agnostic.com goes.... honestly i think you overthought there ... 1. What have they to gain .. (unless the US Christian right is about to start bumping people lol) 2. What personal information are you sharing and why? Is it really dangerous ? 3. How could this information be used against you or humans as a mass.. To be honest when i look at these questions i see flaws .... I think nobody is used to something free & from what i gather from the attitudes of people on here, they are on a mission to pretty much to do the right thing and really think about their responses. The CIA haven't got the depth for this never mind the Christians lol.. That's my view.

I've been reading Mark Maron's Subtle Art of Not Giving a fuck. Great book, but one part in particular hit me good and will help you here.

Action is not only the result of motivation, but it's trigger.

So basically, if you have writers block or just can't think of anything interesting.
... Shit on a page. Just get some words, any fucking words, and put them on paper. Keep going. In no time the ideas and concepts all flow from you freely. Write about your breakfast or describe how ugly and dumb somebody who cut you off in traffic is or how subbing your toe left you bleeding on white carpet.
Just shit on paper then thow it away once the gold stars coming.

And I doubt there's anything shady going on here.

Our @admin is not collecting your data.

So idk about forums but when I want to stretch my brain I pull out rpg maker and start making a game story line, character development, alignment trees, plots, quests... I could keep going but you get it lol it's great fun and after you can play your story