Listen to Our Playlist While You Write
Writing is 1% writing, 1% looking into space and 98% doing small errands to “prepare” for the letter. My favorite method of not writing is to put together a very specific playlist to “voice” what I’m writing. If you’re on the hunt for the right music to write, sorry, I just messed up your excuse: here’s a four-hour Lifehacker playlist of writing music.
Based on suggestions from Lifehacker staff, my own library, and playlists from Writer’s Digest and Why Not 100 , this is the quintessence of the best music about writing, songwriting, songwriting, books, and random writing. Listen to this while you write anything at all.
Spotify playlist and YouTube playlist below; Apple Music playlist here . A couple of songs are missing from the Spotify library, including “Inflampected Writ” by Joanna Newsom and “The Book I Write” by Spoon. So download these two main components yourself.
And with visuals, or at least album covers:
Okay, what great songs have we left out? We are ready for rework.