What puts people in the mood to write?

My self I find myself in a warm and fuzzy mood i can't write when i am bored or sad and so i write about past times when i was sad or happy or when i am happy but i am curious to really understands what gives other people the drive to write and be creative?

Well it all depends. I write whenever. My mind is constantly thinking so when it quiets enough to actually think of a poem or lines or something, I try writing it down. I write my best stuff when I am busy. Any mood.

I can only write when I have an emotion that needs to be released and it hasn't had a chance to escape. It could be happy, sad, or an achieved goal and I feel proud. It all depends. I like to find new ways to get me to write again.

I write when I am boring, sad, excite, or etc so it really depends on me having a pen and paper available...lol

I write when the dam poem keeps going around in my head, I release it onto this site so the rest of you can suffer with it.

For me it varies. Some days sitting down with a hot cup of tea and looking out the window at the rain inspires me to write. Other days, I have to be doing something active to get words to come to mind, like jogging or long boarding. Doing things trigger poetic thoughts for me.

For me..I inspire to write when I am listening to music or facing in the beautiful scenery...so that the thoughts and writing poetry flow easily...

I always pop on Gorillaz and listen to em, something about the beat makes my mind go blank and I just write.

Or sometimes I'll just be sitting there and an idea just shoots into my head and I have to write it down.

It depends.

Reading and thinking.

Try analyzing your life and if a personal realization comes up, it should be worth translated into a poem for others to understand, how mere words and story-telling can never amount to

When am sad then i force to write

Inspiration. if you write poetry when you are not inspired you are no really writing poetry!!

I have to be extemely happy or extemely emotional on anything on the emotional level

In love or depressed

I can get inspired only by looking at this group of high-schoolers who's sitting on the grass, or kids playing hide-and-seek in the mall, etc, ETC. Just from the simplest thing that I saw aka experiencing the environment, it really helps! Like, get yourself creative and imaginative day by day.

When ever i feel depressed i write my best poetry.

A tune(in my head that needs words)

I think the poems i'm most proud of were written when I was experiencing something really emotional. But I also love to write when i am given a creative challenge of some kind. I will put on some music, and sit with pen in hand and see what happens

If you're passionate or feel strongly about a particular subject or theme, then it's much easier and more natural to write about it and to express it in poetic terms.

That's how it is for me anyway !

Cricket and/or Nature always do it for me in keeping with the above!

I always want to write while feeling anxious. Writing is a way to steady myself and to channel my obsessive thoughts.