Q&A: Writing Past the Hard Parts

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we have a listener question about writing and how to get back into it after quitting at the hard parts.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Use prewriting to focus your thoughts and to help build your momentum into writing so that you aren't relying so much on inspiration to keep working on your project.
Create notes as you're writing so that you know what you were working on when you come back to it and to record ideas as they come to you so that you're not jumping around the page so much.
You can't skip Day 2 - you've got to forge through the messy middle if you want to get to the other side. Knowing this ahead of time can help you plan on how to get through the hard parts.
One of the most powerful ways you help get yourself through that messy middle is to find an accountability partner. Your accountability partner won't make your work easier - instead, they just help provide perspective and let you see that you can actually do the things you want to do.

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0:33.3	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:39.3	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:42.5	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:49.2	Today, we've got a question from listener Wayne.
0:52.7	Of the many casts that I have going, one of them is writing.
0:57.0	I've been working on screenplays for about 24 years, though never completed one.
1:05.0	I believe that I have some great ideas inside of me and I've done courses and reading and lots of practice. I find I
1:12.3	stop once I reach a hard part like he referred to in an episode as a dip. It's at that stage I
1:21.0	give up. I can get back into it but what really helps me is to ponder about it and let inspiration come to me sort of organically
1:30.5	and eventually it does and I work around it and I feel like I'm back on track.
1:37.5	In the meantime, I have so many notes and many different folders with subfolders and different
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