The Writer's Journey: ADHD, Fantasy, and Teaching with Terry Bartley

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hey team!

In today’s episode we are talking with Terry Bartley, the author of Tyranny of the Fey, host of the podcast Most Writers Are Fans, and a full-time English teacher. In our conversation today, Terry shares his journey as a writer, revealing how he channels his creativity while managing ADHD. We also get into Terry’s diagnosis and how learning about the symptoms led to his self-recognition of the condition. We discuss some the misunderstandings of ADHD and how that can lead to some of the stigmas associated with ADHD. We also go into some of the many tool that Terry uses to help keep himself of track when writing and teaching.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Deadlines are great tools to help keep you motivated and keep you on track - espesially in regards to righting. These deadlines are incredibly helpful for those things that don’t have a well defined done state (like writing).
Accountability can be incredibly helpful for keeping us on task and can come from many sources. In Terry’s case, working with an editor helped keep him on track when he needed to follow through with those intentions of writing.
The importance of grace and understanding is an critical building block in our ADHD journey - whether it is with ourselves or others we need to allow for room to make mistakes and grow with our ADHD.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.
0:06.0	I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD.
0:09.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:16.0	Hey, team, in today's episode, we are talking with Terry Bartley, the author of Tyranny of the Faye,
0:21.9	host of the podcast Most Writers Are Fans, and a full-time English teacher. In our conversation
0:26.6	today, Terry shares his journey as a writer, revealing how he channels his creativity while managing
0:31.8	ADHD. We also get into Terry's diagnosis and how learning about his symptoms led to his
0:37.3	self-recognition of the condition. We discussed
0:39.4	some of the misunderstandings around ADHD
0:41.2	and how that can lead to some of the stigmas
0:43.2	associated with ADHD.
0:45.5	We also go into the many tools that Terry
0:47.2	uses to help keep himself on track when writing
0:49.3	and teaching. If you'd like to follow along
0:51.3	on the show notes page, you can find that at
0:53.2	hacking your ADHD.com slash 161.
0:59.4	And before we get started, this episode is brought to you by AG1.
1:03.3	I decided to give AG1 a try because meeting all my nutritional needs with ADHD can be hard.
1:08.4	And I wanted something that was easy and could fit into my daily routine.
1:12.2	Typically, I'll drink AG1 in the morning while I'm making my coffee, and it makes me feel
1:16.0	like I'm getting the day off to a good start. There's a lot that goes into making sure that I'm
1:19.7	doing all the right things for my body, from exercising, to sleeping, to eating, and AG1 makes
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