Inspiration?

Looking for inspiration in a creative dry spell is probably the hardest thing for me...and things have been at drought proportions around here lately. The (unrelated) day job has been a time and energy drain lately, and it seems to be harder and harder to split my little free time up among all the things that need to be done, including coming up with ideas, and wrestling them into something presentable.

I'm lucky because my husband is an illustrator, and somehow, doesn't mind me coming home and bouncing ridiculous ideas off him. Going completely ridiculous and reining in in seems to be the best way for me to come up with something if I'm not champing at the bit to work on something (Evil Cheerleaders scripts, I'm looking at you).

Also, I try to make time to do "nothing". Even when a concept hits like a bolt of lighting, there's always something that needs to be worked on, and sometimes, a long hot shower or taking a wiki-journey helps me to figure out what needs to be done. "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working even when he's staring out the window." seems to describe my working style very well - there's an awful lot of what looks like staring, puttering, and general time wasting, and then a flurry of activity. The harder I stare at a blank screen, the less I'll ever get done.

and...a few quotes I found thinking about this...because every thought needs some googling.
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” Charles Mingus
“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.” Ray Bradbury