What do I listen to while I'm writing?

Luis Natera asks:Can you share your writing playlist? I'm always looking for good music to have in the background and don't distract me that much from writing and thinking.I've been hoping someone would ask me about this.The overly literal answer is: I don't have one consistent writing playlist. I use Spotify and am generally pretty happy with what I get from its algorithmic recommendations, so I'm usually listening to something different every day. Sometimes I will listen to my "liked" songs until one catches my attention and then start a station based on it; other times I will use one of Spotify's daily generated playlists.The answer to your question, however, is The Sims soundtrack, a handful of other video game and movie sound tracks, 50s and 60s library music, and modern music inspired by library music, plus often some instrumental jazz and funk.My Spotify wrapped every year is like, "You are the world's biggest Marc Russo fan," but it doesn't know how Marc Russo is so it doesn't…

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