Are you an ADHD writer? Then in addition to the normal writing challenges, you’ll be experiencing quite a few more! These blog posts will help by sharing tips from an ADHD writer coach.
For most ADHDers, there's nothing more essential, nor more baffling, than effective task management. Many of us constantly walk around with a feeling that we haven't done enough, or there must be something we're forgetting, or that that is simply Too. Much. To do! So if task management for ADHD…
In today's world, it's hard to get through a day without writing anything – an email, a social media post, a quick text to your friend, or a blog post. And then, there's the longer texts: people will tell you it's important to write a book if you're a business…
I recently published a webinar on my YouTube Channel, Passionate Writer Coaching, explaining how to set up a lasting writing routine. In the video, I spent some time talking about three ways to make your writing routine ADHD friendly. You can watch the full webinar by clicking this link. But…
I recently published a webinar on my YouTube Channel, Passionate Writer Coaching, explaining why you are stuck in your writing and how to set up a lasting writing routine. You can watch it by clicking this link. But I talked about something in that video that I wanted to highlight…
For an ADHD professor, it can be incredibly difficult to balance all your responsibilities. You might be able to take care of your teaching and administrative tasks just fine – those have deadlines after all – but it can be incredibly difficult to prioritize your writing as well. At least,…
Many blogs will give you lists of famous writers who had ADHD. These writers were never diagnosed during their lifetime – honestly, we're still not good at recognizing ADHD, especially in women, so we certainly weren't able to diagnose them a hundred years ago – but rather, someone felt that…
Meet Franka, a brilliant but overwhelmed PhD candidate. Franka keeps wondering if it's even possible to finish a PhD with ADHD!Her desk is covered by a spread of various sticky notes, notebooks, and half-empty coffee mugs. Her mind, like her workspace, is a whirlwind of ideas. Whenever she has a…
As an ADHD writing coach, I'm asked all the time how ADHD affects writing. This mini-series will answer that question. But the best way I can start explaining it is just to show you, by telling you about a fictional ADHD writer. Let's call her Jane. I'd like to introduce…
Almost everyone I work with as an ADHD writing coach finds me because their brains with ADHD get overwhelmed. Now, when you have an ADHD brain, overwhelm can express in different ways. Maybe you get panic attacks or emotional meltdowns. Maybe you just start to feel a lot of resistance…
Most writers I work with have what I call a "project junkyard" full of unfinished and abandoned writing projects. This junkyard makes them feel embarrassed, and they carry a lot of guilt around. In fact, we have a tendency to make the things we didn't finish part of our self-image…