I understand the sentiment, but terrible advice for #ActuallyAutistic people.
Say you managed to break your demand avoidance or inertia and wrote 5-10 really good pages. The next morning, your perfectionism will make you tear them up anyway. You'll blink, and it's ten years later and you're burnt out for the 70th time. You've written and torn thousands of pages of script; a master writer with nothing to show for it.
@CynAq Yeah, for neurodivergent people, it's not advice we could follow (for so many reasons) - at most, an interesting experience of a person.
What helped me get back to writing is that I allow myself to write badly, and I don't think about it in terms of days, word counts, or pages, but of practice or revising the whole thing (through different lenses, one at a time; and there is no cursed lense "is it good"). That works for this AuDHD brain, for now - and I'm glad because I enjoy writing.
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