I was really fortunate to have a very unchoreographed childhood. I had a lot of time to learn how to grow out of boredom. In creative play, a child is establishing a scene, assigning characters, creating dialogue, all of those things are pre-writing. That's the foundation for understanding the concept of story. I did daydream a lot, and I did pretend a lot.
Writers have to be comfortable with their own wandering thoughts.
You can e-mail me through my Web site, but I only travel away from home a limited number of days a month because of my family and my writing schedule. Because of that, I get booked up pretty far in advance. I go for walks on the beach, I read, go to my children's activities. For example, finding your way back home is always a great premise. I don't usually play music when I'm writing, because if the music has words I get too distracted.