Yeah, relaxing really helps get the creativity juices flowing. It becomes a problem when I'm trying to sleep and a thousand ideas pop into my head. I also find that, funnily enough, Minecraft helps to. When I'm just monotonously breaking blocks and filling in spaces with blocks, my brain starts to really think about the story. And, since I try to build maps to help me visualize where things are, my brain focuses on the story that the map is being built around. When I'm building a house I think of the backstory of the house and the people inside, I build a school I think of the school, etc., So, even if I don't make it exact, I think that playing a game for a couple hours might not be a bad writing ritual to have.