All the Music

I almost always listen to music when I write in order to help set a certain mood. For example, I was trying to write about an angsty, teenage party so I listened to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Another song I've used was Buckcherry's "Brooklyn" which actually inspired a whole novel when I was listening to it and got a mental image in my head of a guy walking down the street in New York.

If I'm not trying to evoke a certain mood, I love to listen to "Ghostwriter" by RJD2. It's a great choice for trying to drown out the white noise wherever I'm working but it's not so distracting that it takes me out of my writing.