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Fifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD.
A rising number of ADHD diagnoses, particularly among adults, is not only confirmed by medical studies and mainstream reporting but also borne out across social media and elsewhere among people who'd been privately coping with persistent, often inexpressible challenges. Many of the contributors to this collection can attest to how a later-in-life diagnosis radically demystified the patterns, impulses, and impasses that had affected their lives and their writing. The essays in Chaos, Creativity, Completion reflect the ways poets, novelists, memoirists, filmmakers, and others have come to understand and engage the relationship between their ADHD and their creative practices.
These essays consider how writers can embrace rather than mask their neurodifference, offering multiple ways of finding writing practices that work for ADHD brains—including techniques that often look quite different from traditional writing instruction. Some essays are analytical, some are reflective, and some are delightfully weird, employing humor, research, personal narrative, deep description, close reading, and experimental approaches to genre and form. Each essay also concludes with a writing prompt, providing readers with opportunities to expand their own creative toolkits. Finally, the book includes an interview with David Kessler, a licensed therapist and nationally recognized ADHD advocate, and an appendix with a glossary of helpful terms and a list of recommended resources, from books and organizations to apps and gadgets.
Just as the experience of ADHD varies from person to person, so too do the ways those experiences can be expressed. Chaos, Creativity, Completion is a kaleidoscopic, adventurous series of takes on what writing looks like today.
Contents
Foreword
by Rebecca Makkai
Introduction: We Saved You a Seat (Sitting Is Optional)
by Lisa Van Orman Hadley and Chloe Martinez
1. Lisa Is a Joy to Work With. She Does Not Know What Happened to Her Health Project.
by Lisa Van Orman Hadley
2. Fruit from Space: Neuroscience for ADHD Poets
by Teresa Dzieglewicz
3. Writing into the Wunderkammer
by Douglas Van Gundy
4. discipline (as in métier) (as in correction)
by Douglas Kearney
5. Anything I Fix My Mind To: On Process and Embracing Change
by Kwoya Fagin Maples
6. The Third Word Is Shame
by Robin Black
7. Train Rumbles by at 2:22 a.m., Every Monday Morning
by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
8. Divergence as Praxis, the Accretion of Force, and Feeling Professional: Working Through Grief, Pain, Recovery, Setbacks, and—
by Khadijah Queen
9. The End Game: On Struggle, Style, Syntax, and Sustainability
by Jami Nakamura Lin
10. Ghosts by the Light of My ADHD
by lawrence-minh bùi davis
11. Non-Standard Operating Procedure
by Elizabeth Ito
12. A Glitch Is Not a Glitch
by Rainie Oet
13. Outside Voices
by Jennifer L. Knox
14. Finding Your Face: When Metaphor Becomes a Mask
by Emily Stoddard
15. Waking, Sleeping, Dreaming: On Poetry and Getting Lost
by Chloe Martinez
Afterword: On Being Neurospicy and Everything Else: An ADHD Conversation with David Kessler
Acknowledgments
Selected Resources for ADHD and Writing
An ADHD Glossary
List of Contributors
Index
