ADHD Writing help that works
Does your ADHD prevent you from developing a consistent writing practice? I can help with procrastination, organization, too many ideas, too few ideas, starting, finishing, and everything in between.
Does this sound like you?
You have great ideas... written in one of many notebooks, on napkins, in your phone, on your hand. You are a panster who starts strong, driven by creative impluses and hyperfocus but then all of a sudden you lose motivation and haven't written anything in weeks. Did I say weeks? Months. You are trying to manage everything, and you have an overwhelming desire to be a writer, a better writer, but you haven't been able to write consistently.
You wish there was someone who understood how ADHD makes writing hard
I do! I am a creative, a writer, a writing coach, a certified ADHD coach, a diagnosed ADHDer, and an advocate for neurodiversity. I understand how to best support you and help you find a clear path through all those good intentions.
How I can help
In calm focused sessions we will discuss what you want to achieve, what your ideas are, and where you seem to lose effectiveness.
Goal setting is an important part of writing, even more so if you are neurodivergent. We will work together to set short and long-term goals and discuss techniques to ensure you reach them.
So how do we get started?
Book a free Discovery call and we'll have a chat.
What's important to consider is the process you go through when you have a writing task/project. Do you dive in and then get frustrated when you write in circles, missing the crucial points? Or do you procrastinate, telling yourself you'll get to it when you get some inspiration? Or perhaps you sit down, forcing yourself to start (sometimes the hardest part for someone with ADHD) and find yourself unable to start writing anything.
I am going to help you come up with achievable steps, based on your particular blocks, to take with you to your next writing session.
When is the best time to write if you have ADHD?
Do you know that people with ADHD perceive time differently. Instead of being able to effectively break down time (days, weeks, months) into chunks of time, they basically think about it as 'now' or 'later'. One way to hack this is to take the word later out of your vocabulary. Name the time. Don't say, I will write later. Say, I will write today at two o'clock. Put it in your calendar. Set a reminder.
Writing for work
Does your job require you to write emails, reports, marketing material, proposals? Do you find yourself procrastinating, scrambling right before the deadline, running on adrenaline?
Maybe you get it done but are left with the feeling that you could have done better.
It's exhausting, this sense of untapped potential. Not knowing exactly what to do about it, mixed with the anxiety that tasks are piling up, or your next performance review will remind you again that good writing is a requirement of the job only makes the situation worse. Let's not get started on that critical voice in your head.
There is a way out of the cycle!
Less inside your head, more on the page.
Writing a book
Are you an aspiring novelist, or nonfiction writer? Those with ADHD are great when it comes to brainstorming creative ideas, often times getting carried away by the 'rush', only to stand by as the project gets shelved a short time later when the dopamine fix has died down.
Perhaps you have successfully made it past this point but struggle with pages of great writing that feels overwhelming and disconnected.
You want to finish the project, you know it has the potential to be successful, but you've hit a block.
Methods as simple as talking it through, getting organized (I'll help!), and feeling accountable will get you writing with purpose.