Artists Way or other creative approaches?

I was talking to one of my APs and was reminded of the practice of writing Morning Pages from Artists Way, I think it's either a full page or 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing. In general though I'm wondering about people who may have a serious creative practice of some kind, abstaining from PMO and working out etc. can be a bit mechanical and life may be kind of boring from just doing work like that so there's a need for a creative/artistic element. Even with workout out there's martial arts although I'm not sure what people are doing if they can't spar, but that's just an example. The more examples the better.