Keep capturing everything. These five filters decide which of your notes earns the right to go out under your name, so your output goes up while your slop count stays at zero.
As a neurodivergent writer, I've learned that I don't have to wait until I have an idea to pursue to write. In fact, it's far easier for me to pull ideas from all the many things I've got going in my day and leave drafts about them as they occur in the moment for clean-up later. I use AuthoredUp Drafts for LinkedIn and simple Apple Notes for Substack.
Then when it's time to post, I'll look through my Drafts and see what 'has a pulse,' as you put it, writing when I have energy and ambition and interest. I write when I feel like it, not when I have to.
It’s funny how neurodivergence affects everyone with it slightly different.
My form of it runs the exact opposite direction. Your brain publishes when the interest shows up. Mine declares the project finished the moment the capture exists.
If I don't manufacture a system that says "this ships Wednesday," nothing ever feels like it needs to ship at all. The note is in the file, so as far as my brain is concerned, the work is done. Applause. Credits roll.
And the part that trips me up is never the writing. It's the outline. Organizing the ideas into a structure is somehow the boss fight, and I'll postpone it to tomorrow with total sincerity roughly forty days in a row.
What does your pulse check do with the captures that never get picked? Do they just sit in the pile forever?
I know what you mean. As a fiction author, when I get an idea I'm careful to keep it at a surface level. If I develop the idea fully in the moment without capturing it, I feel the 'mission accomplished' moment and it never actually appears. That's why I hold new ideas loosely as drafts, writing down just enough that I remember what I was thinking in the moment.
Draft ideas are just potential, and not all are worthy to make it to the next level.
I don't feel any pressure to do something with everything. What I've done is give myself a stack of cards I can pull from at any time to develop as a post for LinkedIn or Substack that fits my need or mood.
Every so often I go through and cull the ideas that languish because I'm always adding new ones and ideas are a dime a dozen.
As a neurodivergent writer, I've learned that I don't have to wait until I have an idea to pursue to write. In fact, it's far easier for me to pull ideas from all the many things I've got going in my day and leave drafts about them as they occur in the moment for clean-up later. I use AuthoredUp Drafts for LinkedIn and simple Apple Notes for Substack.
Then when it's time to post, I'll look through my Drafts and see what 'has a pulse,' as you put it, writing when I have energy and ambition and interest. I write when I feel like it, not when I have to.
It’s funny how neurodivergence affects everyone with it slightly different.
My form of it runs the exact opposite direction. Your brain publishes when the interest shows up. Mine declares the project finished the moment the capture exists.
If I don't manufacture a system that says "this ships Wednesday," nothing ever feels like it needs to ship at all. The note is in the file, so as far as my brain is concerned, the work is done. Applause. Credits roll.
And the part that trips me up is never the writing. It's the outline. Organizing the ideas into a structure is somehow the boss fight, and I'll postpone it to tomorrow with total sincerity roughly forty days in a row.
What does your pulse check do with the captures that never get picked? Do they just sit in the pile forever?
I know what you mean. As a fiction author, when I get an idea I'm careful to keep it at a surface level. If I develop the idea fully in the moment without capturing it, I feel the 'mission accomplished' moment and it never actually appears. That's why I hold new ideas loosely as drafts, writing down just enough that I remember what I was thinking in the moment.
Draft ideas are just potential, and not all are worthy to make it to the next level.
I don't feel any pressure to do something with everything. What I've done is give myself a stack of cards I can pull from at any time to develop as a post for LinkedIn or Substack that fits my need or mood.
Every so often I go through and cull the ideas that languish because I'm always adding new ones and ideas are a dime a dozen.