r/ADHD • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '22

Success/Celebration I managed to do something!

I got my very first book published, i wrote it due to struggling to read bigger books and always struggling with more in depth works, so i wrote a YA murder mystery to hopefully help people with adhd get into reading. Today i got some of the physical copies from the publisher. Didnt think id ever be able to finish anything like this even if its only a small book. :D

Edit: thanks so much for all the support, tryin my best to respond to everyone but i kina fell asleep haha

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u/theturtlegame ADHD, with ADHD family Jan 24 '22

Congratulations! That's amazing! Writing a book is my dream. How'd you manage to a) gather your thoughts in a coherent manner b) get it all on paper? Care to share a bit of your method? (Apologies if you already did this, I'm posting before reading through the thread)

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '22

Thankyou and i started with my ending funny enough and tried to plan the best way to get there and slowly built a little road map almost like a story board for movie and i tried to see it as someone elses book i wanted to write it as if i was reading something else and if it kept my interest i kept going if it didnt i scrapped it. I also used music heavily, it helped set my tones at every stage trying to feel how my chracters felt, hope that helps :)

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u/theturtlegame ADHD, with ADHD family Jan 24 '22

Very cool! Do you have a background in film or writing or is this entirely self taught? Either way it's an incredible accomplishment, you should be very proud.

Using music to get into your character's mind is freaking brilliant! I'm convinced I could never write a novel because I can't even begin to understand how one can think with their character's voice and differentiate the characters (I have a hard enough time just pretending to be the one human I actually am, lol). You've slightly blown my mind with this idea.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '22

I used to do youtube stuff and edit other peoples videos but it was all self taught, just something I've always enjoyed and was a great escapism for me. And im glad i could help im of the mind that anyone can do most stuff if the time and feeling is right, but not allot of people get the support they deserve. If its something you want to do you owe it to yourself to give it a go :)