Well, actually...the point was to discover that fact. I didn't previously know whether some people could push themselves to write without external inspiration; whether everyone needed at least some sort of external impetus, such as an overheard conversation or a certain song; or whether the idea of muses was truly universally recognized, though I strongly doubted that last option.

I'm surprised, really, by the variety of responses. And by the fact that so far there *is* at least one consensus: that *something* external needs to spark us, whether it be a song, a muse, or an internalized understanding of a character we lifted from some source external to ourselves (fandom).

::shrug:: I'm simply fascinated by what this is revealing about the writing process. ^____^