{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Something Shiny: ADHD!","title":"Why Writing Can Feel Impossible with ADHD (and How to Make It Finally Work)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3215,"description":"If you have ADHD, odds are you love consuming books. But if the thought of writing one ever came up, you probably shut it down fast. I could never do that. Maybe you were taught there’s only one way to write. Maybe the sheer amount of structure you thought it required overwhelmed you before you ever started. Maybe you panicked, decided you were just lazy or a bad writer, and stopped.\nThis episode is proof that voice was never about you. You have it in you.\n\nDavid and Isabelle sit down with Chloe Martinez and Lisa Van Orman Hadley, editors of Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD, a compilation of essays from creatives with ADHD on how they actually get their writing done, published by the University of Chicago Press. They tell the story of how they connected over their own ADHD, went looking for a book like this, and discovered it didn’t exist. So they made it.\n\nIn this episode:\nThe accommodations that took David from “I will never write the books” to being in one\nWhat to do when the writing won’t come, and why Chloe doesn’t believe in writer’s block\nLisa starts everything and can’t finish. Chloe finishes everything and can’t start. How pairing up got a whole book done.\nThe packed conference room where knitting, stimming, and moving were announced as welcome, and what that unlocked\nThe one word Lisa’s husband noticed in every single essay, and why it, not ADHD, is the real thing to solve\nHow to read your own sensory needs before you write a word, from clearing the desk to leaving for the cafe\n-------\nWait, What's That? Here are some of the terms and people mentioned in this episode explained:\n\nAWP The Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. Tens of thousands of creative writers, teachers, and publishers every year. It’s where Chloe and Lisa’s panel on writing and ADHD drew a packed, double-sized room, and where an editor approached them about making the book.\n\nlawrence-minh bùi davis Contributor behind the essay “Ghosts...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Z5oo5dUJtRg1dVvtKIZLx7oln9E4pT6ZxDge5G2XRxA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIyNDkyLzE2MjUz/NDA2NjgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}