What Music to Listen To When Writing? A 3-minute primer
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
Length: 02:52
I'm author of five novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, and my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates. Here I answer a question that's frequently asked: what is the best music to listen to when writing. The answer of course differs for every author. My answer is ... none! Because I love music too much, and it would distract me from my writing. I recommend bottling your musical inpirations in your brain, and bring them out when you write.
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I'm author of five novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, and my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates. Here I answer a question that's frequently asked: what is the best music to listen to when writing. The answer of course differs for every author. My answer is ... none! Because I love music too much, and it would distract me from my writing. I recommend bottling your musical inpirations in your brain, and bring them out when you write.
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host intro: Paul Levinson is author of five published novels: The Silk Code, Borrowed Tides, The Conhsciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye, and The Plot to Save Socrates
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