Writing Lyrics When Your Brain Is Overloaded
Ever tried writing lyrics when your brain feels like twenty tabs open at once?
Surprisingly, that chaos is often where the best songs begin. Learn how to turn mental overload into powerful lyric ideas.
When Reading Makes You Doubt Your Writing
You’re feeling good about your manuscript… right up until you pick up a brilliant book in your genre. Suddenly the confidence drains out of the room and your brain starts running comparisons you never asked for. If reading sometimes knocks the wind out of your writing momentum, you’re not failing — you’re experiencing something almost every working writer goes through. Let’s talk about why it happens and how to keep moving anyway.
ND-Friendly Writing Tips for Novelists Who Hate Rigid Routines
If traditional writing advice has ever made you feel like your brain missed the memo, you’re not alone. So much craft guidance assumes neat routines, tidy outlines and predictable focus — and many writers quietly struggle to fit that mould. The truth? Plenty of brilliant fiction is written by minds that don’t work in straight lines. Let’s talk about how to write well when your brain prefers a different operating system.
Planning Your Writing When You Think in Pictures
Some writers plan in straight lines with outlines, while others think in images and fragments — and that’s not disorganisation. This article shows how visual, non-linear thinkers can plan their writing in a way that works with their brain instead of against it.
When Your Body Interrupts Your Writing
As writers, we don’t talk much about interruption from our bodies — at least, not in writing spaces. We talk about discipline. Momentum. Showing up. Pushing through. But with National Epilepsy Day 2026 (10 February 2026) fast approaching, it feels important to pause and name the moments when the body steps in and changes the plan — and what that means for creativity.
Six Ways To Improve Dialogue Without Reading Aloud
If reading your work aloud makes you freeze, dissociate, stumble so badly you can’t hear the sentence and/or feel self-conscious instead of analytical, you’re not broken. You’re just wired differently. There are other ways to do it— ways that respect neurodivergent (ND) brains.
Readers Asked Us: Why Do I Keep Doubting My Writing?
Most writers think doubt means something is wrong. But in practice, doubt shows up most reliably in writers who care deeply about what they’re making. The ones who are paying attention.
Dictation as a Legitimate Writing Method (Yes, Really)
For writers who already feel “different” — dyslexic writers, ADHD writers, multilingual writers, anyone who’s been told their writing is sloppy or incorrect — dictation can feel exposing. But here’s the thing I wish someone had told me earlier: Dictation isn’t about speed. It’s about separation.
Write the Opposite: What Happens When You Flip the script?
I love Opposite Day. It gives us neurospicy folks a break from doing things the ‘right’ way. It’s a gentle dare: what happens if you write with your non-dominant hand? (Literally or creatively.) What happens if you stop trying to be good?
The Neurodivergent Book Launch
I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but if your book launch plans currently live in a collection of sticky notes, three half-written Google Docs, a voice memo recorded while driving past Bunnings, and something you scribbled on the back of a pharmacy receipt — congratulations. You are perfectly normal.
Brain-Dump Writing: Why Messiness Works
Neurodivergent brains (ADHD, AuDHD, dyslexic, spicy-brain, rainbow-coded, whatever label fits your flavour) don’t always think in straight lines — we think in constellations. If you’ve ever tried to write from that space, you’ll know the frustration: You’ve got ideas — brilliant ones — but they’re stacked like shopping bags on your arms and one sneeze away from collapse. This is where brain-dump writing comes in. And yes — it is supposed to be messy.
You’re Not Lazy, You’re Neurodivergent: Making Freelance Life Work for You
Some days you’re unstoppable — ideas firing, words flowing, inbox handled, maybe even the washing folded (miracles happen). And then there are days where your brain just… powers down. Where starting feels impossible and thinking feels like wading through wet cement. If you’ve ever called yourself lazy because of that, I want you to take a breath with me — because this isn’t laziness. This is neurodivergence. And once you understand your rhythm, you can build a freelance life that bends with your brain instead of trying to beat it into shape.