Comments on: Contest for Creative Types: The Anticlimax http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/2008/12/19/contest-for-creative-types-the-anticlimax/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:31:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Micha http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/2008/12/19/contest-for-creative-types-the-anticlimax/comment-page-1/#comment-15127 Micha Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:17:30 +0000 http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/?p=243#comment-15127 "The thing is, I have attention deficit disorder (ADD) and thoughts tend to come cascading out of my brain in a hurry. Excessive planning has never been my problem. It’s been the opposite. Like most ADD’ers, I’m impatient as hell. I want to immediately capture whatever’s in my head on a piece of paper. I’ve written many a story without doing an ounce of planning, and drawn many a comic-book page the same way. And I’ve run into the same roadblocks time and again as a result. I don’t need to do more brain-dumps-on-the-page. I’m really, really good at that. I need to learn how to harness and structure all of these thoughts buzzing around in my brain, separating the good ones from the ones I should let go, and refining the good ones into something worth sharing." My problem is exactly the reverse. Well, maybe not exactly, but in some ways, I think... “The thing is, I have attention deficit disorder (ADD) and thoughts tend to come cascading out of my brain in a hurry. Excessive planning has never been my problem. It’s been the opposite. Like most ADD’ers, I’m impatient as hell. I want to immediately capture whatever’s in my head on a piece of paper. I’ve written many a story without doing an ounce of planning, and drawn many a comic-book page the same way. And I’ve run into the same roadblocks time and again as a result.

I don’t need to do more brain-dumps-on-the-page. I’m really, really good at that. I need to learn how to harness and structure all of these thoughts buzzing around in my brain, separating the good ones from the ones I should let go, and refining the good ones into something worth sharing.”

My problem is exactly the reverse. Well, maybe not exactly, but in some ways, I think…

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