How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed my content creation priorities

Rosemary Richings
3 min readNov 26, 2020

I have written about the value of consistent content before.

There’s a justifiable reason for that though. I have created so much content that I’m a very easy person to find online. This particular talent attracts freelance clients. It has also helped me build an online community of neurodiverse people just like me, along with other, professional creatives.

This approach has worked so well for me for such a long-time. So in the early days of the pandemic, I thought that this approach would be just as effective. Turns out I was completely wrong. For example, I haven’t written a single new blog post on Rosie Writing Space, my blog since October. But this wasn’t the first time where I didn’t write a new blog post for a month or more.

At first, I felt guilty about it, and when asked why I haven’t blogged in a while my only real answer was:

“I don’t know.”

Then, after noticing that this didn’t affect my analytics, I let out a sigh of relief.

The more I get to know other neurodiverse people, the more I’m aware of an aspect of disability that I have failed to acknowledge: processing

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Rosemary Richings

Writer, editor, author, neurodiversity advocate with a lived experience, dyspraxic POV