When you read a good writer, it feels like they have everything lined up in their head, all the themes and plotlines and character arcs, and they're just spooling it out for you in a controlled way to keep you hooked. For me that's the part I can't seem to do, keeping everything in my head so I can spool it out in an organized way. I can come up with characters and themes and ideas, and I have a mature perspective on the world, and I can feel things, but the mechanics of actually fucking writing just seem to elude me.
Can practice fix this? Anyone with adhd experience this and get past it?
Honestly the only big secret in writing is you kind of have to kill your inner perfectionist. "Good" writers don't submit their first draft to printers and have it be bought. There's lots of drafts and edits.
If you can get yourself to start writing or have a habit of putting anything to page at least once a day, you'll go pretty far! I know those can be a struggle for people with ADHD, but I can't think of anything else than literally get something on the page (which is why Nanowrimo is such a big deal, just getting 100K words as a goal can be helpful). You can fix stuff later, don't get too caught up on making sure literally everything is lined up on the first draft.
For the record, I've written a few plays, I've done nanowrimo, but mostly I've written academic papers - but I know the struggle of staring at a blank page regardless and honestly just killing your inner perfectionist and just letting stuff flow is such a good way for me to get over writers block.
I can get words out if pressed (although that too is a struggle), but the stuff that comes out just seems too disorganized. I don't want to ramble. I want the writing to be dense with all the threads and ideas in my head, so it feels like I'm going somewhere with it and every word helps build up to something. That's the kind of writing I really like to read. It makes for good prose too.
but writing faster like you suggest might help fix that too. It's easier to hold stuff in your mind for a shorter period of time lol.