What do you do to spark your creativity?

[Squinky]

Squinky, that's very special. 

I love you man.

[Radiant]

Creativity (and also, the required "focus" on a game) comes in bursts, so when it does you should take advantage of it. For a short game this is easy; in my experience it's very fun to make a game in a week, because you can see where you're going and see it develop quickly, and you can use that to hold on to creativity (e.g. META and Infinite Monkeys were both made in roughly a week). Creating big games is much more difficult to not lose touch of.

[Erenan]

I stick my tongue in a power socket.

Actually, I'm a fan of forcing myself to work on things when I don't feel like it. I simply don't feel like working on artwork often enough to make substantial progress if I were to wait until I felt like it. But usually after five to ten minutes of forcing myself, I start to feel like it. And then I have difficulty stopping. It's kind of like getting up in the morning. Once I'm up, I feel great. But it's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to get out of bed.

[Ali]

At the moment, my solution to a lack of inspiration is to read William Blake.

[voh]

Depends. Usually I watch series/movies or read stories/books in whatever genre I'm currently trying to get inspiration for. For example, for a science fiction story I watched Titan A.E. again and played some sci-fi games, and read some books. I'm halfway through writing that novella, and I'm going strong, though it took me a long while to start writing (have had the idea for 2 years, in the back of my mind, and started writing about 3 months back).

Inspiration finds you, not the other way around. Though it may seem like you can find it, or get it, or force it, usually that's not the case. Even a woman on the street singing a song to her child can inspire (happened yesterday, wrote a short story based on something similar).

As for me, it just happens. I search for similar works of art, and spend time getting to know them. Oftentimes it inspires to do something similar, or it inspires something entirely different.