Mornings are something that some people find easy voluntarily getting up at 4:30 am and so on but most people find them hard at least on those dreary grey work mornings. What are you like in the mornings?

Try waking up half an hour earlier each morning and keeping a poetry journal or notepad by your bed, sit there in the pre-dawn silence and scribble away for that half an hour. If you can remember them write down the outline of your dreams, these can be more than useful to a poet.

Look at the way the light or lack of it plays across your room, do the curtain or wall paper look odd in the misty dregs of the night?