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Just out of curiosity, when you write, what do you prefer to listen to: nothing, just total silence, or some type of music or sounds? If you listen to something, what sounds or music do you feel inspires you to write more?
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Music. I find it hard to write without it. As to what...anything goes. My current favorite is Vienna Teng's "Waking Hour", but that changes as I acquire new CDs.
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Music, generally; it helps drown out the background noises. I usually prefer music without words (which distract me easily), and I like to match the music to the mood of what I'm writing, at least to a degree.
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If I'm not feeling motivated, I have to have music, but sometimes I find it distracting so I have to have silence.
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Music. It doesn't matter what - I can mentally tune out the words if I want to. I have to have noise when I work.
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I kind of like background noise, like restaurant chatter. Helps me concentrate in a way. But I don't usually listen to music. I tune it out when I'm in the groove, so why bother in the first place. And if I'm not in the groove, it distracts me.
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I have to listen to music to write, without it I'm a fish out of water, lol. Whenever I'm out I take my mp3 player with me. I mainly listen to System of a Down, Linkin Park or The Offspring. I'm only 19 so thats why I listen to them.
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I listen to music. Usually music w/o words. I have a Mahjongg game on my computer with some cool oriental-flavored music...i put up the game, set the music on random, bring up Microsoft Word, and make myself write rather than match tiles.
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Right now I've got the TV on in the other room, and I listen to the sound...news, usually, but occasionally other things. Of course I do occasionally listen to other things as well, most often music. Currently I favor a group called the Comedian Harmonists. (I've downloaded about thirteen hundred songs onto my computer since I got it---off my CD collection---and I've got lots more to get to someday.)
Of course, too, when I get really into writing something, I don't hear anything...
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Either complete silence, or the music on my mp3, which mostly consists of Japanese music (favourite bands: SeeSaw, Do As Infinity), Country (favourite band: Big & Rich), Black Eyed Peas, or the slow & appropriate System of a Down songs.
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I find music distracting, but since total silence doesn't really work for me either, I usually just turn on a fan for some white noise.
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Whichever I start with, no matter ambience or silence, it will become the scapegoat for writer's block eventually anyway.
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It varies, and depends what I'm writing. if I'm really in deep mad creative splurge mode, then I have no idea whether or not anything else is actually happening ("What's that? The house is on fire? Well, just let me finish this chapter..."). If I'm trying to get myself kick-started, then I sometimes try and appropriately ethnic(ish) music, something that's got hints of the same cultural atmosphere that my story is set in (memo to self; get more Chinese-style music).
For flash challenges at LH, nothing; don't need the distraction, when there's only 90 minutes to write in.
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