I don't know why my cat Mab makes so much noise. Surely by this time she knows I cannot understand her? Perhaps she just likes the sound she makes, halfway between a squeak and a scrowl. To me it's an annoying sound like fingernails down a blackboard or a baby crying in an airplane, from the seat directly behind you.
There she goes again, interrupting my writing; it's a squeal this time, reminding me of a teenager's whine, that meaningless voice of anger and disappointment with parents, wanting nothing so much as recognition of how pissed off they are.
Mab makes me scribble off-balance, but I'm going to try to write through it anyway, no matter how unbearably trivial it may seem.
How do you do that? Write through the noise? This is my biggest obstacle.
Hey Terri,
It sort of depends on the kind of noise … I can’t write through others’ conversations, television, or any music with lyrics — anything with words will scramble me. But I can write through classical music or instrumentals, in fact I often write better when listening to this kind of music. Now my cat sort of falls in the middle — you can’t exactly call her noise “words”, but I know she’s saying SOMETHING, and I often keep trying to figure out what it is, even though I know I can’t. Other times, though, I think of her noise as humming, and this doesn’t bother me as much.