As a writer of fiction, I can enumerate many sources of inspiration from which I extract my energy to compose creative writings. But, the sound of rain is a particularly excellent one. For one, it has a powerful effect of inducing calmness in the listener, and that is a very potent way to summon your creative abilities. On another level, it has psychological associations related to contemplation, solitude, and internal reflection. In winter, we might remember ourselves taking lengthy thinking periods in bed while the sound of rain droplets batter at our windows. Thinking becomes easy and ideas flow in exquisite harmony. Moreover, that relaxing sound separates us from the distracting noise of worried thinking, and as we slowly detach from the real world, we transcend in our thinking too. As a result, you connect with your most visionary and inventive capacities of thought. That's the peculiar thinking process required to compose many of our excellent writings, for those qualities of thinking allow our pen, or keyboard, to reap from the harvested ideas that we have sown during rainfall.