Getting Angry Because My Neighbor is Playing Good Music?

By Kade
Los Angeles, California
January 23, 2022 11:09am CST
It's 9:00 am on a Sunday morning. And my backyard neighbor decided to crank on his radio. Was I asleep? Nope. Been awake for a couple hours now. The issue is I was just settling in to write an article for the other site I'm trying to gain some traction on. Now the music isn't that loud, that's also not the problem. What's happening is that he's playing music I *like* and because I like the music my brain is latching onto that instead of focusing on my writing. I want to sing along and vibe to the beats when I should be digging down in my writer brain. How do you yell at your neighbor not for playing music too loudly or for playing terrible music but for playing good music? "Excuse me, sir, your music is way too jammin and that's just going to have to stop"? Crap. "I Will Always Love You" just started playing. I'm doomed.
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@RebeccasFarm (86754)
• United States
24 Jan 22
Funny
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@Kouponkaren (5487)
• United States
23 Jan 22
Maybe next time you should just go with it, sing along and dance and then when it is over, try to get some work done when you are in a really good mood? Glad you got something written. Can I ask what site you are writing for?
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jan 22
I'm trying my hand on Medium rn. You have to get up to 100 followers before you can be in the partner program for payment so I'm mostly working at building a presence at the moment. I'm trying to write once a day so people know I'm active. I've also signed up for Simily for fiction but I don't have any standalone shorts at the moment that aren't fanfiction lol. I've been working on a novel but I don't want to publish any of that until it's done.
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• United States
24 Jan 22
@akruser13 I was thinking of joining Medium also. I don't like the fact that you have to pay in to make good money there. That doesn't sound right to me. Let us know how it goes for you please. And good luck.
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jan 22
@Kouponkaren Yeah, there's some definite downsides there. Simily is free as long as you don't care about the cap to actually read other people's works but it's such a new platform that it doesn't have an audience yet. I was thinking I would try to build an audience with the larger Medium crowd first with regular article writing and whatever fiction or poetry I write I'll publish on both platforms because you're allowed to do that. Then from there as I'm building audiences (hopefully) on both platforms then I can publish my full length novels on amazon and see if I have readers willing to buy my stuff outright over there.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
24 Jan 22
Lol I guess you can just jam with him for a short while?
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jan 22
I kinda did lol. I gave up on writing until they turned it off.
@Kosgey (1707)
10 Feb 22
Just have some discipline and continue with what you are doing. Build some courage and practice what we called best practice of discipline.
@Kosgey (1707)
11 Feb 22
@akruser13 Continuing doing what you are doing without distraction.
• Los Angeles, California
10 Feb 22
Hahahahahaha! Sir. I have ADHD. It's not that easy to just turn off distracting things in the background. Also what does courage have to do with discipline?
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• Nairobi, Kenya
23 Jan 22
sorry. You just have to postpone the writing
• Los Angeles, California
23 Jan 22
I did! We had Whitney and Britney and Celine and just everyone back to back from teen and young adult years. I jammed until they turned the music off and then I finally wrote something, lol.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
23 Jan 22
@akruser13 haha. That's a good problem you have. It seems you enjoyed your problem rather than being stressed I'm glad you finally wrote something
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@dilleo (980)
• Canada
23 Jan 22
What a predicament to be in! I don't really have a good answer to this. Maybe some kind of earplugs or something, and when you are done the article, go join in the fun
@dilleo (980)
• Canada
23 Jan 22
@akruser13 Haha! Speaking of Titanic, I haven't seen that in so long, I might have to revisit that one.
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jan 22
@dilleo You know as much as I love movies I have never seen that one in chronological order start to finish. I've seen every part of it but always while other people were watching so I got it in chunks and mentally put it all together.
• Los Angeles, California
23 Jan 22
Lol, they shut it off mid-Titanic theme song. Which bugged me so I had to put it on to finish it before I could focus on anything else, lol. I was over here like "Neaaaaar!!!! Faaaaar!!!! Wherever y-- ...hey." Haha!
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@Faster16 (2930)
• Indonesia
24 Jan 22
just enjoy it, maybe your neighbors understand you well to the song you like