{"id":17046,"date":"2023-03-06T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=17046"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:07:05","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-scatterbrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2023\/03\/06\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-scatterbrain\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of a scatterbrain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, a little fun fact about me, and one that you probably already figured out is that I am a total scatterbrain. I may have briefly mentioned this about me, but if you didn&#8217;t know, there you go. Why am I saying this and why is that important for a blog? Well, simply put, my being a scatterbrain and someone with ADD has a big effect on my writing. The reason why that is that I may have a whole idea for a story or a play or whatever the case may be, but I go to write it and I&#8217;m never fully engaged in the writing and five minutes later, I will go do something else.<\/p>\n<p>So, this blog will mostly be about how it is dealing with my scatterbrain and ADD. And, no, I&#8217;m not offering any sort of solution for this in case someone reading it is dealing with that as well. I don&#8217;t mean to sound rude by saying that but the truth is that I don&#8217;t have a solution to give. So, after this post, I will do my own research and find ways to help with it. But for now, I will just vent about my own experience and if you&#8217;re dealing with the same stuff, then you can maybe stay tuned for next week&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on with the show! Obviously, having ADD has a much bigger effect on my life than just my writing. It influences everything that I do and when I am engaging with other people. No seriously, you could be talking to me for five straight minutes and I swear that I am listening to you but after the conversation, I&#8217;ll have zero recollection of what you just said. There are many other examples I could give you, but I won&#8217;t bore you with all the unnecessary details.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the part where it affects my writing. I currently am using Wattpad to write stories\/digital books(No, I don&#8217;t have anything published on there). I began using it a couple of years ago when I was oozing with different ideas for a story, but every time I got started with one and continued to write it, eventually I&#8217;d drift away from it and never come back to it.<\/p>\n<p>That same thing goes for assignments that I do: I&#8217;ll keep bouncing back and forth between different ideas. I&#8217;ll get to one that I&#8217;ll like and keep adding to that idea and that story\/play\/poem whatever, but towards the middle or the end of it, I&#8217;ll come up with a whole new idea that I really like but I&#8217;ve run out of time to add on to that. And by the time I&#8217;ve gotten done with the assignment and turned it in, I&#8217;d forgotten about the idea I really wanted to write about.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, that&#8217;s how it is, for me, to deal with having ADD while being a writer. I will search for ways to help with this and please if y&#8217;all are dealing with this and have ways of helping it, let me know. But, I hope y&#8217;all enjoyed this and I will see you guys next week:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a little fun fact about me, and one that you probably already figured out is that I am a total scatterbrain. I may have briefly mentioned this about me, but if you didn&#8217;t know, there you go. Why am I saying this and why is that important for a blog? 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