What do you listen to while you work?
I don’t like hearing noises from outside or from other parts of the house while I’m writing. It gets in the way of my concentration.
I usually have one of these playing on my laptop. Loud enough to block out unwanted noise but quiet enough not to disturb me.
Sometimes, I play songs to suit the setting of a scene or chapter I’m writing, to help me with inspiration. The problem with songs is that I often get distracted by the lyrics and end up singing along instead of writing.
When I was writing Secrets in the Babby House, I played a lot of Irish ballads. The song, Red is The Rose, is of huge significance in the story, so I played it a lot.
There’s nothing like songs and music to transport the mind to a different place or era.
Thank you for reading today!
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Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.
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