Turning MD into ART Discussions - Wild Minds network2024-03-29T06:32:28Zhttps://wildminds.ning.com/group/turningmdintoart/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noI need to talktag:wildminds.ning.com,2021-01-22:4661400:Topic:4028332021-01-22T00:54:10.442ZLife must behttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Lifemustbe
Hi can anyone write me I just know about my MD
Hi can anyone write me I just know about my MD Card 2 our troopstag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-07-25:4661400:Topic:3100322018-07-25T01:59:35.577ZJenn Taylorhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/JennTaylor
<p>This is most excellent. If I weren't so old I could figure out how to post a few pictures of my pics of the cards I drew to send to our troops serving overseas. My garden flowers.</p>
<p>This is most excellent. If I weren't so old I could figure out how to post a few pictures of my pics of the cards I drew to send to our troops serving overseas. My garden flowers.</p> Poetrytag:wildminds.ning.com,2017-09-11:4661400:Topic:2655072017-09-11T19:38:45.753ZAlanahttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Alana165
<p>Does anyone hear like to write poetry?</p>
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<p>I love writing stories and drawing but one of the best ways I have found to express myself and really get my feelings onto a page is to write poetry.</p>
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<p>I just wrote a poem a few minutes ago about MD and I'm very proud of it :) I find it is easier to make something raw and real while writing poetry x</p>
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<p>Do any of you write poetry of your own or read any? x</p>
<p>Does anyone hear like to write poetry?</p>
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<p>I love writing stories and drawing but one of the best ways I have found to express myself and really get my feelings onto a page is to write poetry.</p>
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<p>I just wrote a poem a few minutes ago about MD and I'm very proud of it :) I find it is easier to make something raw and real while writing poetry x</p>
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<p>Do any of you write poetry of your own or read any? x</p> Hundreds of drawings from my daydreamstag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-08-22:4661400:Topic:2386302016-08-22T06:43:57.825ZRoelhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Roel
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<p>Hey!</p>
<p><br></br> One day I just decided to buy a sketchbook and start doodling the stuff I dream about in it. That was half a year ago, and now the sketchbook is almost completely full. I've already posted a few pictures of the result on my blog, for those who saw that.</p>
<p>You can see the best results on my tumblr: <a href="http://roelifant.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">CLICK THIS TO SEE PHOTO'S</a></p>
<p>With the small exceptions of a few drawings, all of the stuff you can see…</p>
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<p>Hey!</p>
<p><br/> One day I just decided to buy a sketchbook and start doodling the stuff I dream about in it. That was half a year ago, and now the sketchbook is almost completely full. I've already posted a few pictures of the result on my blog, for those who saw that.</p>
<p>You can see the best results on my tumblr: <a href="http://roelifant.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">CLICK THIS TO SEE PHOTO'S</a></p>
<p>With the small exceptions of a few drawings, all of the stuff you can see there, are things I dream of. Looking at the results, I am actually a bit amazed by myself. I never expected so many drawings would come out of this. A year ago I couldn't have imagined that MDD could ever power anything creative. I thought MDD was the obstacle that prevented me from achieving anything. It was my greatest demon. But this time I was able to create... well, "art" I guess because of it. My demon made this possible.</p>
<p>Just imagine if I didn't draw all that, all that stuff you can see would now just be still stuck in my head and it wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't be able to explain to anyone what was wrong with me. I'm so glad I made the choice of starting a sketchbook, and I would just like to encourage others to start a sketchbook too. I think it can help. It's not like it can cure MDD, but it definetly can make you feel a bit better about yourself. If you can't express the things happening inside of you, you might as well just be an aweful person that never gets something done in his/her life. Thats how that feels anyways. But when I look again at all these drawings I made over the months, I can see what has been happening to me my entire life. I don't see it in a negative way anymore. Most of my drawings are very simple and bad, because I don't put much effort in it, but still they show me that my brain has potential of doing amazing things. If only I had a bit more control, I could achieve all sorts of greateness. Thats how I feel now. And I'm glad that I finally got to feel a bit happy and proud about my MDD, and about myself. It's so rare, and I think it is how many of us deserve to feel.</p>
<p>Because honestly we're all amazing and perfect! <3</p>
<p>So realy I would recommend to anyone to just buy a sketchbook and start doodling. The great thing is that your drawings don't have to be any good for it to work. You just have to doodle whatever. Quality will only come over time, or won't come at all, but the process is what liberated me honestly. My tumblr may be deceiving because I only display the best results there, but believe me when I say I made a lot of crap too, as is the intention. Sketching is all about expressing all the visual ideas you have, without any need or pressure of it being any good. I'm saying this because many people that will read this will probably think "But I can't draw!" (ok maybe thats not likely in this particular group...) but honestly not being great at drawing is no problem! If you like to doodle, this will be perfect. Doesn't realy matter if your strength actually is in writing or anywhere else. Let that sketchbook be one great mess, that will set your creativity free the most. :)</p>
<p>Most of all: It's just incredibly fun to do. I would start having drawing sessions instead of daydreaming sessions. It didn't realy help the MDD go away, it just sort of replaced the dreaming with drawing, and it wasted just as much time. But at least drawing gave me results in the real world, while Daydreaming never did. Now, because I've drawn over nearly 200 pages full with crap, I've had such a good excercice that I realy learned how to draw a bit better and for the first time in my life MDD has had a productive impact on me. I learned things. I progressed in my creative life. Because of MDD. For someone like me; who dreams half of the day and constantly zones out of whatever activity I'm in, constantly losing contact with reality and wasting days of my life making my efforts in college and my future suffer. For someone like me this is realy a nice change.</p>
<p>So, I suggest you'd draw. Whenever you dream about something, think of how you would draw it. Take some paper and a pencil and just start, and then laugh at the crappy result. I promise you it's amazingly fun. :D</p>
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<p>Thank you for reading this!</p>
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<p>what about you?</p>
<p>Anyone else likes to draw/sketch/doodle about their dreams?</p>
<p>Anyone else had any liberating creative experiences like this?</p>
<p></p> Making my iPad card gametag:wildminds.ning.com,2015-07-08:4661400:Topic:2099512015-07-08T21:55:33.632ZFlorishttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Floris
<p>Whether games are art is debatable and so is the question whether it is related to MDD but as a dreamer and thinker, looking to get much more out of my creativity, I have found it most satisfying to have been working on my first iPad game, Memory Quest.</p>
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<p>I loved to program it so far but particularly I find artistic freedom in making the music soundtrack and also in doing the graphic design and game design, thereby making the (stock art) pictures alive and using my creativity…</p>
<p>Whether games are art is debatable and so is the question whether it is related to MDD but as a dreamer and thinker, looking to get much more out of my creativity, I have found it most satisfying to have been working on my first iPad game, Memory Quest.</p>
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<p>I loved to program it so far but particularly I find artistic freedom in making the music soundtrack and also in doing the graphic design and game design, thereby making the (stock art) pictures alive and using my creativity and versatility. You can view a first demo of the game here. Appreciate it very much if you do and leave feedback!</p>
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<p>PS I wish all members here the needed time and courage to pursue their own creative ideas. What worked wonders for me: take your time to figure out what you really would love to work on. Investigate and learn the most basic of skills needed. Then start small and simple. And be patient, this all has taken time for me.</p> MD into Drawings and Paintingstag:wildminds.ning.com,2014-12-05:4661400:Topic:1967992014-12-05T01:54:17.426ZRichard Questhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/RichardQuest
<p>Ever since I've started daydreaming, I've recorded it in my drawings and paintings--literally every piece of artwork that I've done sprouted from my MD. I have at least ten full sketchbooks and a wall full of hanging pictures, but I never tell people the story behind them. To them it's all confusing, but for me it connects all of my daydreams together. I'm not that good of an artist, but I want to share some work that I have done. You guys can show yours too.</p>
<p>Ever since I've started daydreaming, I've recorded it in my drawings and paintings--literally every piece of artwork that I've done sprouted from my MD. I have at least ten full sketchbooks and a wall full of hanging pictures, but I never tell people the story behind them. To them it's all confusing, but for me it connects all of my daydreams together. I'm not that good of an artist, but I want to share some work that I have done. You guys can show yours too.</p> My own card gamestag:wildminds.ning.com,2014-11-21:4661400:Topic:1958442014-11-21T14:38:13.050ZFlorishttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Floris
<p>The current dream I am pursuing is bringing out my own card games. Collecting them is a passion that started at 18.</p>
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<p>In the past I have been fond of card games deemed "nerdy" such as Magic the Gathering and Star Wars CCG. I spent numerous hours building wondrous decks. I have discovered many other games in the past year such as Ascension, Seventh Hero and Smash Up. Also less "nerdy" games such as Mascerade, Resistance Avalon.. . As long as it's outside of the mainstream and has…</p>
<p>The current dream I am pursuing is bringing out my own card games. Collecting them is a passion that started at 18.</p>
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<p>In the past I have been fond of card games deemed "nerdy" such as Magic the Gathering and Star Wars CCG. I spent numerous hours building wondrous decks. I have discovered many other games in the past year such as Ascension, Seventh Hero and Smash Up. Also less "nerdy" games such as Mascerade, Resistance Avalon.. . As long as it's outside of the mainstream and has enough imagination I tend to be interested.</p>
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<p>I love fantasy and sci fi themes amongst others. And found some great and affordable artwork that deserves being in a game.</p>
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<p>My skills are inventing the games, making layouts with Photoshop (still learning a thing or two), being smart and creative about saving costs in various ways and working with great limitations. Also there are so many things I see that are wrong with existing games. I want to do better (and probably will make many mistakes still).</p>
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<p>Originality will not be so much in the fantasy themes but in the niches within that theme since I will not aim much on things like combat and conquest, my first game will be about fairies stealing treasure, a second about transport and espionage.</p>
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<p>Idea is to launch via kickstarter and then sell via my own webstore. </p>
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<p>Still in an early stage of accomplishing my goal (due end of next year or perhaps even later). I never expected the grass to be greener than my former job: it was laid back and paid very well. Now I have to deal with more loneliness and not living up to other people's standards when it comes to working very hard and making long hours. </p>
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<p>Of course, everybody asks me the same 3 questions:<br/> -can you make enough money with this???</p>
<p>-is there a market for it that you researched???</p>
<p>-do you have a business plan???<br/></p>
<p>I reply, yes because I have seen succesful examples when it comes to sales. But for truly useful, specific information I am really in the dark. It will take a lot of time to build up something I think. I see this as a part time adventure to relieve it from destructive pressure. Generally, despite positive reactions, I see a lot of negativity, people saying or at least thinking: "forget about making money with games". Or: "be sure that the game is absolutely beyond brilliant and ground breaking or stop wasting your time". It can be very demotivating.</p>
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<p>Also, I want to write a novel in the future but decide to focus on cards now to prevent me from going mental.</p> Crafting- Kniting, Crocheting, Painting, Sewingtag:wildminds.ning.com,2013-09-30:4661400:Topic:1583742013-09-30T01:34:06.793ZShellyBellyhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/ShellyBelly
<p>This is what I have started to do and to be honest I DD while doing but I still feel so much better just because I don't feel like I wasted hours. I improved on a skill. anybody else craft?</p>
<p>This is what I have started to do and to be honest I DD while doing but I still feel so much better just because I don't feel like I wasted hours. I improved on a skill. anybody else craft?</p> Turning My MD Into Arttag:wildminds.ning.com,2013-02-01:4661400:Topic:1251222013-02-01T23:32:07.567ZRae Bradfordhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/RaeBradford
<p>I actually take my dd's and turn them into stories. No one would know about it. I get questions about where I can manage to think some of the stuff up in my stories and I just say I have a great imagination</p>
<p>Go to this link: <a href="http://www.quotev.com/raelove">http://www.quotev.com/raelove</a></p>
<p>I actually take my dd's and turn them into stories. No one would know about it. I get questions about where I can manage to think some of the stuff up in my stories and I just say I have a great imagination</p>
<p>Go to this link: <a href="http://www.quotev.com/raelove">http://www.quotev.com/raelove</a></p> MDD in Classic Literaturetag:wildminds.ning.com,2013-01-17:4661400:Topic:1223522013-01-17T20:47:53.328ZBeth Whttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/BethWaymire
<p>Hello everyone, I just read a short story for my English Literature class, and I couldn't help but notice that the narrator portrayed many traits of Maladaptive daydreaming. </p>
<p>The story is "The Yellow Wallpaper" by <span>Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and it is written from the perspective of a woman who was prescribed the "rest cure", which basically means she was confined to a room for three months. </span></p>
<p><span>Here is a link : …</span></p>
<p>Hello everyone, I just read a short story for my English Literature class, and I couldn't help but notice that the narrator portrayed many traits of Maladaptive daydreaming. </p>
<p>The story is "The Yellow Wallpaper" by <span>Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and it is written from the perspective of a woman who was prescribed the "rest cure", which basically means she was confined to a room for three months. </span></p>
<p><span>Here is a link : <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qiXd9eBcReMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+yellow+wallpaper&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TV34UInwN8PfiAKXuICoAw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">The Yellow Wallpaper</a> (it is a google books page, so hopefully it works for everyone)</span></p>
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<p><span>To me, the fact that she was "given to fancies" but tried very hard to stop them and as a result felt very nervous and paranoid sounds like she was going through withdrawal. I noticed some other things too, like how she feels relief in writing. </span></p>
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<p>So I was wondering if anyone else feels that the author could have been a maladaptive daydreamer.</p>