I actually don’t like writing to music all that much! I prefer ambient sounds or background noise. I can write in a busy, noisy Starbucks without getting distracted at all. It’s how I used to write in college - I would go to Barnes & Noble with a pen and notebook, and I’d write for four hours. For a long time, I didn’t have a laptop or an iPod or anything else to turn off the B&N noise, so I just got used to it. And now I sometimes think I write better with all the background noise. When I do have my earbuds in, I’m usually listening to ambient noise channels on YouTube. And sometimes I’m not actually listening to anything, but having the earbuds in keeps random people from talking to me, which is a distraction, particularly at NaNoWriMo write-ins!