Creative inspiration

These days, my heart rate accelerates, I start breathing faster and my hands get clammy... when I have to write a story!!! Gone are the days when I would crank out one (or even more per day) without batting an eyelid. I'm now like the Calvin strip where he tells Hobbes that "for inspiration to strike, you must be in the right mood." "Which mood is that". "Last-minute panic." Bill Waterson channelled the deepest dark secret of a writer when he dreamt up this one, and at the last minute too, I'm sure.