Then there are the moments that kick it into high gear. It might be a mind-catching phrase I overhear on television that sends my imagination spinning. An inspirational line from an email could give creativity a boost. Actually, making sure I'm really living my life to the fullest helps me maintain my creativity. Many baseball players have routines or superstitious behaviours they feel they need to enact before a game or a play.
Some people still use a manual typewriter.
They wouldn't have it any other way. They say it would disturb their creative process to use another method. For drafts, I love to use purple ink on yellow letter pads. For first rewrites, purple ink on the ink jet printed pages inspires me to greater creative depths. Well . . .