# When are you at your most creative?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-at-your-most-creative/11898>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 7, 1999, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-at-your-most-creative/11898 "1999-12-07T20:04:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BrainWeasel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@BrainWeasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainWeasel)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-at-your-most-creative/11898/21 "1999-12-11T06:03:00Z")

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After dark, in a bathrobe, three minutes after listening to Sarah McLachlan.

## That, and when I’m going on four hours’ sleep. I just can’t seem to get away from those triple-cursed flying pink elephants.

-BrainWeasel

Squeaks from BrainWeasel’s Cage  
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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-at-your-most-creative/11898/22 "1999-12-11T06:14:00Z")

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\*\* neuro-trash grrrl\*\* says, of her plans to get a band together

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> I don’t know what it is, but I can’t even play chopsticks if someone’s watching me, or not watching me, or pretending not to watch me.

That is going to have a fairly strong limiting effect on the popularity of your band. Come to think of it, it is gonna pretty strongly limit the \*\* size \*\* of your band, too.

Don’t quit your day job.

## **\<P ALIGN=“CENTER”\>Tris\</P\>**

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.  
–Abraham Lincoln

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-at-your-most-creative/11898/23 "1999-12-11T06:23:00Z")

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When I worked…for money, that is…I was most creative at my desk typing away madly at a story in between talking to clients. ( I always managed to keep up with my work load and then some.)It is truly the only thing I miss about that job. Constant day dreaming.

Now that I’m home full time, it’s pretty much never. By the end of the night I’m either too tired or couldn’t be bothered.

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-at-your-most-creative/11898/24 "1999-12-11T06:43:00Z")

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For me there is definitely a daily cycle. I get an enrgy infuls around 10 - 11:30 OM (depending upon the time of year) and it can last anywhere from an hour to all night (which always makes the next day suck – but I do it anyway.)

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