{"id":198,"date":"2013-03-07T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-03-07T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T07:04:42","slug":"coffitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Coffitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a homebody, so I’ve never gone to Starbucks to write, but we all know (or learn from TV) that it’s “something writers do.” I thought it was mainly about getting out of the house–some people can start to go batty when they’re cooped up all day (not me; I’m a hermit). There’s also the people-watching benefit, but that’s probably best in a planning stage rather than a drafting stage.<\/p>\n

Well, turns out, there may be more to it. A study<\/a> published in the Journal of Consumer Research<\/a> shows that a moderate level of noise is better for creativity than low\/no noise. So it could be that all the clinking machines and murmuring voices in a coffee shop reach that perfect decibel level (70 Db, according to the study) to enable you to churn out a literary masterpiece (or an entertaining read– both are good in my book :)).<\/p>\n

But I like to write in my pajamas, so I’m not sure about going the Starbucks route. Thankfully, some smartypants over at Coffitivity <\/a>have solved the problem for me. They created a website where I can listen to the noise of a coffee shop from the comfort of my own home. They even suggest the balance you should shoot for between your music and the “ambient noise.”<\/p>\n

I may give it a try some day. I don’t listen to music when I write because I can’t do that passively. I usually write in silence, but that has a tendency to get me sleepy after a while (especially if I’m doing any editing…zzz). Sometimes I turn the TV on to something I’m not interested in, but even the most boring show distracts me on occasion.<\/p>\n

Maybe this will be my noise solution! Anyone else have some non-music ambient noise ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a homebody, so I’ve never gone to Starbucks to write, but we all know (or learn from TV) that it’s “something writers do.” I thought it was mainly about getting out of the house–some people can start to go batty when they’re cooped up all day (not me; I’m a hermit). There’s also the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}