Reply To: When employers won’t, or can’t help

[Patte Rosebank]

@Evelyn, I visited your blog, and I must say that you do write VERY well!

Especially that lovely purple prose of “A Bad Day”.  You’ve managed to turn something so awful into a thing of beauty.  That’s a very special talent!

Looking at your blog, the one thing I’d suggest to improve it is more white space.

Your post about the triggers for getting lost, etc. is such a worthwhile read, and so is “A Bad Day”.  But you know how daunting a solid block of text is to an ADHD brain!

 

Fortunately, it’s easy to say, “Out, out, damned SBOT” (Solid Block o’ Text), if you tackle it the way I do:

1)  I keep my paragraphs short, no more than about 6 lines long.  Then I do an extra carriage-return, to insert a blank line between them.

2)  Sometimes, I’ll add an extra blank or solid line to denote “and now for something completely different”.  It makes it easier for people to follow the jumps in my train of thought.

 

When I first started doing this, I wrote first and broke it into paragraphs later.  Now that it’s a habit, I do it as I go along.  It’s worth it, because the easier you can make it for people to read what you’ve written, the more likely they are to read all of it.

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