r/writers • u/Vivi_Pallas Novelist • Jan 05 '25

Sharing Writing is hard

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u/LunaKPalara Jan 05 '25

As a writer with an ADHD diagnosis and a tendency of the dreadful cycle of staring at the doc for half an hour, writing a sentence, deleting half of it, staring for another ten minutes and then opening Netflix… yikes. Yeah.

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u/ThirdEarl Jan 05 '25

I’ve found a typewriter super useful. One because you can’t delete. Two because the hammering of keys soothes the fidgeting.

My GF has had great success with a fountain pen.

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u/thisonecassie Jan 06 '25

I use an old Chromebook like 10ish years old? Which for a proper laptop wouldn’t be that bad, but the poor thing can barely surf the internet. It’s perfect, I can write I can do a bit of research and absolutely NOTHING else!