{"id":4645,"date":"2015-04-29T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2020-08-17T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:11:14","slug":"the-blessed-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2015\/04\/the-blessed-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"The blessed quiet: writing in silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4646\" src=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-300x300.png\" alt=\"silence and writing how to write\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-375x375.png 375w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of-45x45.png 45w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/\u201cI-have-no-explanation-for-my-love-of.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;ve listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerscentre.com.au\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my podcast<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/valeriekhoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valerie Khoo<\/a>, you&#8217;ll know that we take a different approach to writing.<\/p>\n<p>Val likes to write in cafes and other places that have what she calls &#8216;ambient noise&#8217;. She even went so far once as to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/coffitivity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this app<\/a>, which recreates the sounds of a cafe\u00a0for you.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I like the quiet. The blessed quiet. I think it&#8217;s one reason that I still write late at night, when the house is in thrall to that deep, dark, black silence that only comes after a long, noisy day. When the boys are sleeping, and the cars are tucked up safely in their garages. The only other silence I can compare it to is the almost unbearable relief of the quiet when a newborn baby finally goes to sleep, and peace settles over the house like a thick blanket.<\/p>\n<p>I have no explanation for my love of this kind of quiet, except that it&#8217;s so damn noisy in my head all the time. My thoughts are so loud, the conversations I have with myself so intense, the thinking about whatever project I&#8217;m working on or what&#8217;s next on my To Do list is so constant.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of noise needs no competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you like silence when you write, or do you, like Val, like ambient noise?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve listened to my podcast with Valerie Khoo, you&#8217;ll know that we take a different approach to writing. Val likes to write in cafes and other places that have what she calls &#8216;ambient noise&#8217;. She even went so far once as to buy this app, which recreates the sounds of a cafe\u00a0for you. 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