Bookwork Entry 9

A lot is said about adults with ADHD and their inability to focus, but not enough is said when they ' re focused on the wrong thing. Here I became fixated on adding a certain project to my list of things to do, which was already ridiculously long.(Mobile browsers only display the first page. Please view the text entry after the embedded PDF …) 25 AUGUST 2022Bookwork 9: Did I really want to write a book about Pok émon?Yeah, about that.One of my steady blogging gigs ten years ago was for a gaming site. When that job shriveled up, my love for gaming didn ' t shrivel up with it. I developed a trading system for Pok émon XY& ORAS. It sold alright but not as well as I had thought it would.When Generation VII games came out, I wrote a sequel, but the changes Game Freak made to the GTS seamed to kill trading. Basically, my system worked, but not as quickly. I never released the book.Fast forward to the future and Pok émon HOME has replaced GTS, and all of a sudden my old system works steadily again. Of course, I thought of dusting off the old book and updating it.This is where things get weird.I already abandoned that idea. Too much work. Not enough return. It ' s a distraction. It turns a fun hobby into a job. I ' d rather write a novel.While I was sick, the next Pok émon game was announced. I don ' t remember when this occurred. but in my feverish delirium, I latched onto the idea that I could whip out an update. It would be easy as pie.No, it would not. I ' ve made pie....
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Bookwork Journaling Source Type: blogs