Begin, Build, Abandon, Resurrect: The Journey of a Short Attention Span

The combination of being "a writer" and "living with ADHD" is a strange place, most of the time.

I have never been one of those writers who sits there, staring at a blank screen or page, lamenting endlessly about their "Writer's Block." Mostly... I and up lamenting that I can't keep all my ideas organized enough to remember what I've already thought about, and written about.

The real challenge is trying to stay focused on one idea long enough — while being able to tune out (or at least "postpone") the 47 that come up while I am working on that first one — to actually bring it to its conclusion.

I'm not doing terribly well at it, as evidenced by the fact that my PeakD drafts folder has at least 50-something started and incomplete posts in it.

I doubt I will ever get around to them.

As the years have rolled by, more and more of my writing has developed into a sort of free-standing "article format" rather a blog format.

Or maybe that's just a matter of interpretation...

The thing with blogs (at least the more interesting ones, in my opinion) is that they tend to be a conglomeration of "serialized thoughts" within a particular genre or area of interest.

I have seldom felt very compelled to keep up with blogs that are about "shaving alpacas" one day, "changing an oil filter" the next, and "recipes for peach pie" the subsequent one. I see that approach and I'm thinking "Pick a lane, ANY lane, and stay in it."

Ironic, given that this scatterbrained format is precisely the one I follow, myself!

In spite of the fact that I was taught — initially at University, and subsequently while working in the IT industry — that the true sign of a good organization system was "never needing a MISC folder," I have to confess that I rather frequently end up with those dreaded "MISC" ideas.

Most of them arise while I am in the middle of writing about something else. That's just one of the joys of life with ADHD.

Another related "joy" is that I almost never discard anything, because it might turn out to be useful later, when I feel more inspired. Or energetic. Or something.

Makes me think that people with ADHD are the "psychological hoarders" of the world. We hoard ideas, rather than stuff.

But I'm going to publish this disjointed mess now... and maybe tomorrow, I will have another look at the two "sidetracks" that came up while I was reading it.

Or I'll "resurrect" one of the ideas I've had in the hopper for a couple of years...

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great Sunday!

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