Writing Techniques for Neurodiverse Writers
Writing Techniques for Neurodiverse Writers
Thursday, February 19 | 7 - 8:30 pm et
This workshop is for writers who feel deeply, think in loops and layers, and struggle to make traditional writing advice work for them. If you’re highly sensitive, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent, you may carry stories about being undisciplined or bad at finishing, even when your calling to write is persistent and matters deeply to you.
In this 90-minute workshop, we’ll explore writing as a place to honor how your mind works, how your ideas develop, and how resistance shows up for you. Through instruction and guided writing exercises, you will be invited to work with your authentic needs, attention patterns, and inner resistance instead of fighting against them. You’ll leave with reframes for common struggles like non-linear thinking, idea overwhelm, inconsistency, and rejection sensitivity, and options for writing practices you can tap into when traditional methods feel inaccessible or overwhelming.
Note: While this workshop is designed with sensitive and neurodivergent writers in mind, it’s also for anyone who struggles with focus, executive function, organizing ideas, or working through overwhelm when it comes to writing.
Drop-in participation is $25. Practice sessions and workshops are included with Inner Story Writing Circle membership and are also free for paid Substack subscribers.
THE PRACTICE: GROUP JOURNALING SESSIONS
The monthly Practice sessions are 90-minute gatherings designed to support your writing practice through inspiration, reflection, and connection.
These generative sessions take one of two forms:
Guest Conversations + Writing Practice
Some months feature a special guest. In these sessions, the first half is a guided conversation where I speak with our guest about their creative journey, lived experience, and unique path to creative fulfillment. In the second half, the guest offers a writing prompt or reflection. We spend time writing together, followed by an optional group discussion to share insights and discoveries.Facilitated Writing Workshops
Other months, I lead the Practice session myself. These sessions function more like gentle workshops, where I introduce a simple, useful writing technique, reflective practice, or storytelling tool that you can bring into your ongoing journaling or creative work. We write together and reflect as a group.
Whether guest-led or workshop-style, each Practice session is designed to meet you where you are and help you nurture your practice and connect with community.
These sessions allow you to:
learn about different paths to creative fulfillment
fuel and sustain your writing practice
discover new entry points to healing and self-expression
explore meaningful themes, ideas, and creative approaches
benefit from the collective wisdom of the community
get words on the page
writing and self-discovery workshops
This workshop series supports writers who are working with lived experience—personal stories, memories, observations, and meaning-making on the page. Each session focuses on a different part of the writing process, from idea generation and drafting to shaping, revising, publishing, and deciding what to do with your words once they exist.
These sessions will help you:
charge up with fuel and inspiration for your writing practice
discover new entry points to creative healing and expression
learn different techniques and approaches to creative development
learn and grow from the collective wisdom of the community
build courage and confidence in your creative voice and process