How Listening to Music May Hinder Your Writing

Science backs some very famous authors in writing in silence

J.J. Pryor
Better Marketing
Published in
5 min readJun 5, 2020

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Do you listen to music when you write? It seems that the majority of writers do. But the science behind you blasting Metallica while writing (as Stephen King used to do) is starting to say maybe you shouldn’t.

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