{"product_id":"chaos-creativity-completion-new-approaches-to-writing-and-adhd-9780226834955","title":"Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD","description":"\u003cb\u003eFifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eChaos, Creativity, Completion\u003c\/i\u003e reflect the ways poets, novelists, memoirists, filmmakers, and others have come to understand and engage the relationship between their ADHD and their creative tool kits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just as the experience of ADHD varies from person to person, so, too, do the ways those experiences can be expressed. \u003ci\u003eChaos, Creativity, Completion\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic, adventurous series of takes on what writing looks like today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chloe Martinez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.13w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226834955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChloe Martinez\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, a translator, and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eTen Thousand Selves\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCorner Shrine\u003c\/i\u003e and translator of \u003ci\u003eBlue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai\u003c\/i\u003e. She works at Claremont McKenna College, where she is Associate Director for Programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse. \u003cb\u003eLisa Van Orman Hadley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eIrreversible Things\u003c\/i\u003e, an autobiographical novel-in-stories. Her stories have most recently appeared in \u003ci\u003eNew England Review, The Collagist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEpoch \u003c\/i\u003eand have been shortlisted in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Salt Lake City and works as a freelance editor. \u003cb\u003eRebecca Makkai\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of fiction and a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Great Believers\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among other honors.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chloe Martinez \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47876557013149,"sku":"9780226834955","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_9383d316-921a-4dec-8673-0948bf66d7f8.jpg?v=1777381687","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/chaos-creativity-completion-new-approaches-to-writing-and-adhd-9780226834955","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}