How Do You Know When Not To Write?
When you consult your to do app, the next item on the list is “write” and often there’s a word count attached. You open the file. You try to write, but you keep getting distracted, scrolling through social media or having other projects interrupt....
Five Questions To Start the New Year Right
It’s that time of year again when my social media feeds are full of ads for programs designed to boost your creativity and your productivity in the new year. People are making posts about their “word for the year” and for the low price of only $19 or...
When You Can’t Write, Give Yourself Kindness
I put 1125 words on my writing tracker last night, which goes by weeks, and realized those were the first words I’d written since November 2. Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why and even before last week’s events, I was dealing...
Feeling Like You’re Chasing Bouncing Balls?
Having an ADHD brain is an adventure. I’ll be reading something for college, become very interested in it (dopamine activation + hyperfocus) and all of a sudden I’m on the library’s website looking up footnotes and finding more books to read)....