A quick note on Music, Alienation, and Curveball

I like to listen to music when I'm writing. A lot of people do--there are people who find music or any other kind of noise distracting, but if I'm listening to the right music at the right time I find my ability to write increases a thousandfold, and "thousandfold" is a pretty good factor of increase. So for my writing projects I like to come up with playlists that reflect not necessarily the mood of the story, but the mood I want to be in when I'm writing the story. So my writing playlists a...