I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

She's thinking that what she's been doing all these years isn't what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn't. Lately that happens more and more, and she can't seem to find what she had and what made her special. But she can't tell her father because he'd be so disappointed in her, so disappointed to find out she's not extraordinary after all.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

I listen to music constantly while writing.