Free. Nine questions. About two minutes
The real reason you're not writing
You know your ADHD probably has something to do with it. But how is it affecting your writing process? And what can you do about it?
Answer this quiz and you’ll have language for the thing that’s been happening to your writing for years.
Nine questions · about two minutes
Why isn't the writing happening?
I'll give you nine statements — you say how often each one is true, and I'll tell you what's actually getting in the way.
1 of nine
Your result
The real reasons you're not writing
The biggest one, for you, is .
There are two others underneath this one, and they're both pulling at you as well. Fill out the form to see all three, how much each one impacts your ability to make progress, and what to do about the biggest one for you.
You've already tried the obvious things
More discipline. A better app. Getting up an hour earlier. Blocking out a whole Saturday, finally, and then spending it doing absolutely anything else.
Some of it worked for a week. None of it stuck. And somewhere along the way you stopped blaming the method and started blaming yourself — because if the thing works for everyone else, and it doesn't work for you, what other conclusion is there?
There's another one. It's just that no one told you about it.
Nobody has told you how ADHD shows up in the writing process.
People talk about ADHD all the time now: executive function, dopamine, time blindness – you’ve probably heard people talk about all of it, and all of it is important.
But nobody talks about how it affects writing.
Everyone is happy to tell you how to take care of laundry when you’re neurospicy, no one tells you how to write. So, you had to figure out the specifics on your own: why on this project, on this Tuesday, with the document open in front of you, you still didn’t write as much as you thought you would. Why the writing routine that works for two weeks collapses in the third. Why the deadline you set yourself did nothing at all.
Writing advice assumes a brain that does as it’s told, and ADHD advice assumes you’re managing a calendar rather than a manuscript. No one helps you figure out the intersection.
But I’ve got you.
What the quiz does
Rate nine statements
Just say how often each is true. No long-form questions, no essay about your childhood, nothing to prepare.
Get one clear answer
I'll give you a specific answer about what's stopping you, and how much of it is that rather than something else (without making you feel bad about yourself -- you don't need my help to do it!). But I won't leave you hanging, I'll also give you a concrete thing to try next.
Ready?
What clients say
About Susanne
Susanne coaches writers with ADHD — academics, novelists, people with a book that’s been almost finished for three years.
She spent years negotiating with her ADHD brain over her own writing, and eventually noticed that nobody was talking about the part where the two meet. So she started the conversation herself.
Susanne lives in Italy with her husband and a Lagotto puppy called Elvis, who has strong opinions about when the working day ends.
Two minutes,
And you can stop guessing
You’ve spent long enough assuming the problem is you.
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