Use The Random, Luke

When you need a little help being creative, using guided randomness to help you always works.

Inspiration

The musician Brian Eno, who worked with David Bowie, Roxy Music and invented ambient music created a deck of cards called Oblique Strategies for when they were a bit stuck in the studio.

On each card would be a prompt like "take out more", or "listen from outside".

Grotesque Tables is a similar online version. The Make It Pop Cards are great too.

Brainsparker

https://brainsparker.com/card-picker-starter-pack/

A bit like Oblique Strategies. Random inspiration but online.

Rory's Storycubes

https://www.storycubes.com/en/
Physical prompts to get that story started

Wikipedia Random

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random

Click on the Special:Random link to get real items to use in your writing. I got "Swarfega" and a Serbian footballer.

Grotesque Tables

https://www.grotesquetablesii.com/

Based on Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, Grotesque Tables is a deck of creative prompt cards that are all anagrams of the Oblique Strategy cards.

Make It Pop Cards

https://shop.makeitpopgame.com/

Like Oblique Strategies, these cards are a great "game" for making you come up with something creative.

BRIAN ENO - HIS MUSIC AND THE VERTICAL COLOR OF SOUND

https://monoskop.org/images/f/f1/Tamm_Eric_Brian_Eno_His_Music_and_the_Vertical_Color_of_Sound.pdf

Brilliant article by Eric Tamm which looks at Brian Eno, who was part of Roxy Music, worked with David Bowie and went on to invent functional music, and the whole ambient genre.

Has lots of tips regarding creativity.