I read once that any distraction, whether it be cell phones, Facebook, your significant other, that poodle next door with a bark that sounds like its choking on a squirrel, or even your favorite music, can be detrimental to the writing process. I don’t agree with this. Well the music part anyway.

Some people prefer pure and absolute silence, but I’m not entirely sure how that’s possible. Do these people write at midnight in their local graveyard, or have they found themselves a room with four padded walls and a single locked door? The latter would probably mean they’re insane, which is hardly surprising since we’re talking about writers, but when does life actually provide an author with the perfect setting to write?

My thoughts on those silence-lovers is that they spend more time worrying about distractions than actually writing, just like I used to. When I first started getting serious about writing my novel that was my biggest worry – finding the right room, the right noise levels, the right head space and the right kind of wife to give me the time, silence and escape I needed to delve into my imagination and get inside the minds of my characters. That was also why I managed to write a grand total of 10,000 words over the course of three months. Gross.

One day I was procrastinating, looking for advice on writing and watching YouTube videos when I stumbled upon Adrian von Ziegler. The title of the first video I clicked was “2 Hours of Fantasy Music” and, thinking this very intriguing, I sat down, closed my eyes and gave the first few songs a listen.

Fast-forward two weeks and I had 30,000 words down and the first substantial chunk of my novel completed. It was the absolute PERFECT playlist for my writing. Before Adrian von Ziegler, I tried the whole silence thing and got absolutely no where with it. Now, with his music  I’m transported directly into the right head space, and the writing flows along with the tempo. I found the ying to my writing yang, and his name is Adrian von Ziegler.

Give the first few tracks a listen, it could be just what you need to break that writer’s block:

If you have any favorite tunes you listen to, I invite you to share them in the comments section. =)