It's very much mood based for me. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. When I do the choice tends to be at one of two extremes: either classical (music only, I'm not an opera fan), or maybe jazz, or I go the other end to really up-beat. The energy of someone like Paramore (I'm somewhat out of their usual demographic, I fear) can be just what I need when the going's good.
But what I'm suffering from at the moment isn't based on music, and isn't writer's block as I'd ever imagined it ... it's life block. I finished a novel about a year ago, but haven't found the time/head-space to get it beyond 2nd draft ... mostly because it needs a sequel ready before I would publish it (the story isn't really finished yet), and I haven't gotten anywhere with that. Life keeps getting in the way.
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