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Writing a Book When You Have ADHD (Patreon)

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2022-04-26 12:25:13
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2023-12

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Writing a Book When You Have ADHD

Getting formally diagnosed with ADHD last year, as I was just about to turn thirty years old, was a bittersweet experience. Obviously, gaining a fundamental understanding of own my lived experience was validating, and finding out at least one of the conditions I live with could be treated with medication was very much validating, but...

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Beech Horn

Great insight. It's how you manage to get through the review/editorial process which seems IMO most impressive. Isn't the rule of thumb that it takes twice as much effort to improve a piece of creative work than it takes to have created it in the first place? Have only a narrow experience of those diagnosed with ADHD in my own life, whose productivity is a roller coaster and requires regime/pre-planning for controlled/concentrated efforts, however, going back over the same work again and again refining and improving it seems (maybe naively) an epic challenge. Had previously missed the reason for co-authoring Who Hunts the Whale, until this article. Finding a way to achieve things, strategise, overcoming challenges to do what you want is truly epic and inspirational. Well done!

Perpetual Noob

This was a great read Laura. Thank you for sharing your process and why it was your process. I haven't been diagnosed but I do see a lot of similarities to how my mind works and so I'll be trying these strategies you've mentioned and see if they work for me too. 🙂

KB
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I'm not diagnosed (though it runs in my family), but I've always found editing way easier than drafting. Writing something for the first time has this huge inertia hurdle to get over sometimes. Where editing is just opening up the document and reading it, fixing typos, re-reading it, moving a paragraph, re-reading it again, etc, until I take a break. It's a task that's never done but it just has to be good enough to publish, not perfect.