The only thing more maddening than writer's block is when other's don't have it.

Writer’s Block

So often we think about office noise as a bad thing, a major distraction of people talking too loud or making personal calls or some other obnoxious habit that forces us to lose our focus.  But what about our own distractions?  The ones we can’t really fault on other people as much as we’d like to.  For example, let’s say you’re my husband and your office mate is typing more productively than you (remember, this is just hypothetical, my husband would never be unproductive…not when we uprooted and gave up everything for him to do his PhD…)… Back to our pretend world, let’s say your office mate is just typing away…type type type…and the sound of him getting further along on his own dissertation as you sit stagnantly on the same sad paragraph just slays you.  Hypothetically, mind you, if this should happen, even the sound of someone else’s productivity can be just as distracting as any other office noise…and can frustrate your wife who just wants you to find your groove.

Drown it out, my friend.  Drown it out.  For all mankind who has ever struggled with writer’s block, I present you with white noise because it might just help you forget those who have found a muse so you can find your own.