If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.