Name: Chaos, Creativity, Completion. New Approaches to Writing and ADHD
SKU: 64747762
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Author: Chloe Martinez;Lisa Van Orman Hadley
ISBN: 9780226834931

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Chaos, Creativity, Completion. New Approaches to Writing and ADHD

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Author

Chloe Martinez;Lisa Van Orman Hadley

Year

2026

Pages

216

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9780226834931

Chaos, Creativity, Completion. New Approaches to Writing and ADHD

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Synopsis "Chaos, Creativity, Completion. New Approaches to Writing and ADHD"

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.