Is it a distraction if your kitten is running in between the tented part of your iPad while youre reading this article? I was still able to focus on the words but it took awhile longer than it should have. Not sure this applies to your point.
“Writing while supposed to be doing something else” is definitely a thing - and yeah I was a prolific journaller too. And fell into the dangerous trap of Morning Pages for years…
Ok this is my quandary too! Everyone talks about how morning pages help them with the rest of their writing soooo much but if I journal often that fulfills my writing dopamine hit for the day!
Yes, I feel like I'm done, but also I fall into rumination and it becomes a worry-dump rather than anything productive or iterative. In the book Julia Cameron would talk about a 'character walking on to the page' or whatever, for her. Nope, never. Recently I decluttered (shredded) about a decade's worth of MPs and they were all the same, self-critical diatribes, repeated for years. Me giving myself a hard time. Admittedly pre-ADHD diagnosis, but still.
Is it a distraction if your kitten is running in between the tented part of your iPad while youre reading this article? I was still able to focus on the words but it took awhile longer than it should have. Not sure this applies to your point.
Cats are definitely a distraction
“Writing while supposed to be doing something else” is definitely a thing - and yeah I was a prolific journaller too. And fell into the dangerous trap of Morning Pages for years…
Ok this is my quandary too! Everyone talks about how morning pages help them with the rest of their writing soooo much but if I journal often that fulfills my writing dopamine hit for the day!
Yes, I feel like I'm done, but also I fall into rumination and it becomes a worry-dump rather than anything productive or iterative. In the book Julia Cameron would talk about a 'character walking on to the page' or whatever, for her. Nope, never. Recently I decluttered (shredded) about a decade's worth of MPs and they were all the same, self-critical diatribes, repeated for years. Me giving myself a hard time. Admittedly pre-ADHD diagnosis, but still.
TLDR: probably not great for ADHDers
Oh wow yeah I hadn’t thought about how three pages of unfiltered thoughts from the adhd brain might not be productive