What is the right season for creativity?

It's hot right now. It's over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It's been over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for days.

For me this happens every summer. There are weeks, sometimes months where I can't use my main computer.  It gets too hot and shuts down in the heat.

When it first gets murder hot my own body shuts down in the heat. I need to lay down and not move. I can't sleep, but I can't do anything else either. This might last for three or four days. Yes, I have ACs, but as hard as they try it's still not enough.  Summer is the worst time for me to be creative with game making.

In winter I want to just sleep (and eat).  It's dark and cold. My legs freeze and my fingers freeze and my nose gets all cold. I get tired and my sinuses run wild from the fireplace smoke that fills my little town and filters in through my frosty windows. My brain goes fuzzy. My computer, on the other hand, runs like an absolute champion. 

In the spring I want to go out side! Its warm and the sun is back. I have a lot of creative energy but I can't stand being inside once it gets nice out. Long walks help me think through a lot of creative problems and I can't recommend walking enough. I have to walk. I NEED to walk. The cabin fever is in me and I have got to get it out!

The only time I can really sit down and hammer anything out (outside of a panicked, two day jam-rush) is in the fall. It's still sunny and I can go out side but its not hot. I can walk, but I don't have months of cabin fever to exorcise like it's a soul eating demon.

It also seems to be the best time for a lot of people because that is when the November novel wiring challenge, NANOWRIMO, happens.

Maybe creativity is solar powered. Maybe it has to do with Vitamin D. Or maybe it has to do with physical activity. Or a combination. I'm not sure. I am sure I'm not getting nearly enough done right now.

November is a few weeks away still and it's going to be hot for a while.  I want to stay creative in the heat while I also try to estivate in my tiny little, hot apartment.

Out comes the notebooks. I can fan my self with a notebook. I can sleep with a notebook next to me and it won't over heat in the blankets. I can also write down ideas in a notebook.

Obviously this is not a stunning revelation to anyone who has ever encountered or used a notebook. But it is an important part of the question.

What is the best season for your own creativity and how do you stay creative when it's the worst season for you?

Even if I'm not on my computer and have little to no energy I am still taking notes and working on ideas. I have managed to jot down a simple fishing mechanic that may never see the light of day in a real game, but I'm not letting the thinker-bean dry out. I have plotted an antagonist and roughed out some minions and sub minions to fight. I've learned from tutorials and videos and taken notes.
I've taken naps with my pen in my hand and gotten ballpoint ink on my bead spread.

I've tried. It doesn't feel like enough. My computer is still off and I'm afraid of loosing interest again, like I do every summer, and abandoning my game project altogether.

Even my mini fishing game. 

That is, in part, why I am writing these Dev Logs as well. If I write once a week to track my progress, even if no one reads them, I am still working under the itch page of my game. Maybe that's enough.

Maybe.
~Me