The following article was written by friend and colleague, Paul Lima, and reprinted here by permission. Special to The Globe and Mail – October 20, 2008All around the world, workers in branch offices use the latest technology tools, from e-mails and instant messaging to Web portals and video conferencing, to get their jobs done. Even employees in the same building – often on the same floor or in adjacent cubicles – use these and other…

It’s what I call the act of writing — The Process. For me writing is almost ritualistic, definitely fraught with fidgeting and distractions, just as I’m doing right now by blogging about The Process. Writing is a necessarily solitary, will-sapping endeavour that if I’m lucky renders an article, a short story, if I’m really determined, a novel. Music is part of that process. All kinds of music, depending on what it is I’m writing, which,…