I have most of my best ideas in the shower. I first noticed it when I was doing my own nanowrimo ripoff (cowoh.org) in 2002ish and I'd have my good plot twists

I have most of my best ideas in the shower. I first noticed it when I was doing my own nanowrimo ripoff (cowoh.org) in 2002ish and I'd have my good plot twists while I was sorting out the shampoo. Unfortunately, it's one of those things you can't talk about because the moment you do it some smart ass will make a rude remark about the sorts of ideas you might have in the shower, and that kills of the momentum of the interesting thing you were about to leap into describing. It is a reliably frustrating opener. The first comment to that post is a case in point. Another place I have great ideas is in the kitchen when I'm doing the dishes. This goes back to a period where I had a horrible job and the only satisfaction I used to get in a day was coming home and washing my families dishes. I'd go so far as to say that my claim on those dishes, twice a day, was what got me through that hellish, soul-destroying period and subsequent breakdown. So now I tell people that I had a great idea while I was doing the dishes, even though odds are that it was in the shower. It's just easier that way. Good writeup. I think the benefit of a creative pause is that it makes you reload which makes you requestion some assumptions. Reloading can be expensive though.