The Millionth Monkey Syndrome

I believe I have Millionth Monkey Syndrome (MMS).

I didn't know I had it until I started reading David Täht's Postcards from the Bleeding Edge blog which he's in the midst of morphing to Nex-6.

While writing this I'm carrying on an email conversation with him - far too many parallels in our lives to miss this one :)

But MMS certainly seems to describe me - at least when I'm in my creative phase. I'm not sure that having a name for my malady is any more comforting than knowing that I have any other "disease" that the pharmaceutical companies have been inventing to describe symptoms from jock-itch to raging dandruff in words that sound like you really need to purchase a cure from them.

One item I found in doing my typical Google search on interesting items is Report #TL80A: CREATIVITY REPORT #1 wherein it is #21 on the list of Unreality Symptoms along with things like: Inability to confront reality, lives in a state of waking dream, manic-depressive tendencies. Number 21 has the extended definition of "maybe partially due to chance factors such as being the proverbial millionth monkey with a typewriter who wrote the bible. Finds it difficult or impossible to repeat success. Cannot identify the true reasons for past success."

Sometimes I despair.

But I just can't stop writing!

Tag: writing