No matter what kind of writing you do, fictional or otherwise the question of what 'noises' to have around has long been debated. Some people believe that pure silence is the best thing to give someone's mind complete space to reach its full ability, but then some people who aren't comfortable with silence prefer music, some more instrumental, others more lyrical. But what is the best? Well, quite simply there is no 'best' because writing is an incredibly personal thing to do, people are vastly different, and although there is always something similar in everyone when it comes to this sort of thing it can truly differ, and most probably always will. That's the way it should be aswell.
However, for me, as a person who doesn't really work too well in silence I have to have music but when it comes to the argument of lyrics or instrumental I kind of sit on the fence. Depending on what kind of mood I'm in, or what kind of genre I'm writing depends what I listen to. Generally I listen to slow soft acoustic songs from artists like Gabrielle Aplin, James Morrison, Joshua Radin, Norah Jones etc. These kind of songs relax me very easily and get rid of any stress I have, and obviously stress is a high creativity-blocker. I also find sometimes the slightest lyric in a song might spark an idea in my head for whatever reason. If I'm writing a particular intense scene full of action or horror though I listen to heavier rock like Thirty Seconds To Mars, Linkin Park, Emarosa, The Fray etc so that the faster speed, and inclusion of a heavier percussion puts me in the appropriate mood for the scene.
Lastly, for emotional scenes again I might just use the acoustic songs, but sometimes I find instrumentals help just as much, because when I write a particularly sad or poignant scene I like to imagine the kind of cinematic trope of complete silence except the characters and faded music. These kind of film scenes really engage the audience and effect their emotions, so if I can listen to music that coincides with this kind of scene I feel like I will produce a much more worthy piece of writing.
But as I said at the beginning everyone differs, this is merely what I do.
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