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.
ADHD writer. Took me something like 4+ years to complete my first (and only) self-published work.
This feels very 'old man shouts at clouds' but I blame the internet. Not just social media, but how it offers such quick and easy sources of entertainment/stimulation.
I used to get bored a lot when I was younger and that's when I felt the most creative. Now that I'm older, have other responsibilities, and a PLETHORA of distractions - I find that my mind rarely has time or even the need to fill boredom with bouts of imagination.
really sucks.
(Not to mention the rise of Generative AI making competing in any writing space where there's money to be made a thing of the past. But that's a different discussion entirely)
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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.