Disclaimer:
I’m not a doctor, therapist, or anyone qualified to give you life advice. I’m just someone whose brain operates like a browser with 47 tabs open, three of which are playing different songs, one is frozen on a Pinterest recipe I’ll never make, and somehow I’m still managing to write coherent sentences. What follows are strategies that turned my scattered mental chaos into actual work that pays my rent.
I used to think my brain was broken. Turns out it was just operating on a completely different frequency than every piece of writing advice I’d ever been given. The same mental patterns that make me check my email seventeen times in ten minutes have become my secret weapon for creating stories that actually surprise people.
These techniques work because they don’t fight against how my brain naturally functions. They embrace and somehow turn it into something productive. They’ve gotten me greenlit screenplays and bestselling books and essays that people actually read without falling asleep.