Deadlines

Honestly, I kind of stopped fighting my natural writing style. I excel at last minute papers. I am currently writing an essay that is due today as well that I've procrastinated on ALLLLLL week... and now my brain is (almost, it's still early) hyperengaged and pounding it out easily. 🤷‍♀️ I have often wondered why we feel the need to change the way our brain naturally excels. I think it would be different if you never wrote the paper because you procrastinate until it's too late, but if you get it done and it's done well... does it REALLY matter when you do it? Are we just trying to force our brains into neurotypical functions and processes that don't fit us? 🤔 crap... distracted by this app... got a paper to finish. Good luck on yours. I know you're going to kill it... soon. 😉👍

I'm not writing an essay, but my job requires I document ALL THE TIME. It's so boring and tiring. I have 2 deadlines a month for turning documentation in and nearly miss them everytime and I've been at this job for well over 5 yrs. My best suggestion is once you actually get started writing, let your self take little to go and do something else. As far as just getting started, I have a Playlist titled Dopamine full of songs that hit just right and get me energized and focused. I also have a Playlist that's just instrumentals so the lyrics don't distract me while I write. Body doubles help too. Good luck!

Cjzoinks has some brilliant advice! Do you have anyone you could body double with? That person could work on whatever they wanted and you could work on your essay. Could you quickly breakdown your essay into manageable and not painful 😖 chunks? I do quite a bit of copy editing too. Oooh. Grammarly has saved my 17yo daughter’s bacon in school. It makes all kinds of helpful suggestions about grammar, sentence structure, readability, etc. It’s one thing you don’t have to do completely on your own. What’s your essay about, if it’s ok to ask? 🥰 Good luck! We're rooting for you.

I have the exact same problem! My advice would be to just do it 20 mins (or less) at a time, and schedule breaks in between each session so your brain doesn’t get bored. I also find it helps to have a brain dump document so you can put all your thoughts on the assignment topic and what you want to do - that way you have something to start off with/choose your points from. I find listening to music helps me as well, normally something with a beat/faster so my brain wants to go at that pace too. Let me know if you would like any more suggestions! My diagnosis is super recent but I’ve worked as a content/copy writer before as well so have some writing specific tips 😊 Good luck!