Right now I'm on the "chilled cow" channel on youtube.
https://youtu.be/-FlxM_0S2lA It's a little low key, so when I'm getting sleepy I head over to
https://coffitivity.com/ or youtube some coffee ship sounds. Ironically I'm already in a coffee shop most of the time.
Other favorites include the portal2 soundtrack called "songs to test by" when I need a little more high energy, or the youtube channel "asmr rooms"
https://youtu.be/20XE6GM7xWo if you want a simulated hogwarts library with three hours of background noises and flickering candles.
On rare occasions I'll put on "binaural beats meditation" a neat little phenomenon where two complimentary tones are played, one in each ear, and your brain compensates by merging them into a single tone.
https://youtu.be/tU3oAyin8W4 
Sometimes I'll put on international webcams. You can pull up webcams all around the world and pretend your tv is a window into an itallian piazza.
Focus and meditation aides aside, another good trick is to listen to the same albums every time you write. Good for habit forming, because your brain becomes accustomed to writing whenever that song comes on. I have the best results with large vocabulary hook-y rap. But I'm sure you can do it with any music . Mad Conductor, Max Normal, and Wu Tang may be incredibly distracting the first ten times, but by session eleven you've heard all the lyrics, it becomes white noise, and some of the clever wordplay still finds its way into the prose. But it doesn't work at all with unfamiliar music. If I had a writing playlist, I would be very deliberate with inserting new songs into the mix and not do it when I'm up against a deadline.
I hope someone finds these useful. Share your tricks, I'm always looking for new ones. I've got only enough time each day to spend a few minutes lurking on the Anctum. I appreciate you all even if I'm not on here as frequently as I'd like.
