An idea for a story[ plz tell me if it is worth it]

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I like to write, but I can only write when I think of something that I want to write about. I was thinking of writing a novel on a teenage girl with aspies. To tell about her experiance in high school and in love. What I do not know is if anyone here, or even if NT people would read a book like that. I want to write something that people will remember, and now that I found out about asperger's and how it has likely affected my life. I want to convey that feeling to everyone, so that everyone know how aspies affect the lives of all of us. I want it to make sense to everyone though. Is is far too challenging to make a romance book revolved aroudn an aspie, because I want it to be believable and I plan to make her actually be an aspie, not just slap on the name.

If the characters and situations are interesting to you and you can weave a compelling story, then you can find an audience amongst both Aspies and NTs. Look at a book like "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" Having an Aspie main character already creates an interesting set of story situations and this can work to your advantage, but you will also have to keep in mind that Aspergers syndrome alone is not your story. If you write about realistic people with believable conflicts and struggles, you should be able to communicate to anyone willing to read.

Good luck,

Lars

You know, it may be fun to have your readers guessing as to what is going on with your main character and why she is acting "strange" to NT's at least, some will suspect aspies, but they won't find out til the end. You could make that the twist in the plot. She has done all this because she's an aspie. Might be a very interesting read. Good luck!

Every story idea is worth it as long as you take the time and put in effort and passion People will read about any subject if the characters/plot are/is interesting. People can tell when an author really loves their story, it makes it much more interesting.

There are a couple good rules I learned from a creative writing course I took:
-put in only as much exposition as necessary and try to do it in an interesting way (don't just list info)
-try to describe things using every sense (not everything through every sense all the time, but maybe if you describe how the wind FEELS, then desribe how the grasses look when they move, and how the earth smells...that kind of stuff. Not just all how it looks, which is a common mistake)
-when using simile try to stay away from cliches (an example would be something like, "as fast as a speeding bullet"- something that is over used.)
-When writing dialog use common speech, such as slang or contractions. Unless of course formal speech fits the characters.For ex, a gangster probably wouldn't use formal/correct English, while an Aspie who maybe is known for "speaking formally" probably would (a signature character quirk)
Hope that helps Good luck and have fun!

I like to write down my little micro ideas as I think of them --
for example, as you go about your day, if you think of something about a character concept- like maybe the character has a tick -- just write that down - 'tick' -- if you can expand on that later you can, but dont get stuck on having to be detailed at first.

Eventually you will have a lot of ideas, hopefully with some detail for each, then start putting it all together.

Thanks for the support. I am gonna start by working on her personality and i like the idea of not letting anyone know until the end, but i will see where that idea goes. I am gonna make this as great as i can to the best of my ability.

Write about dogs and cats. People love animals.

I think your story sounds like a great idea!
There aren't enough books about autism out there, especially not fiction novels. I think it would greatly appeal to both the AS community and the NT community. Go for it! Even if it doesn't turn into a full novel, it could make a great story.

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the sad state of what passes for creative writing now adays is a joke. a bad joke. that said add a gay vampire to that and you have a best seller

FWIW, I would definitely read it. I bet a lot of people would, both aspie and NT, if you can tell a good story and describe things in an interesting and vivid way.

One thing to consider is, what age group are you writing for? That'll affect the style you use a lot. (Well, maybe not. Twilight has so much melodrama and rather...off grammar that I would've assumed no one older than 18 would enjoy it, but apparently there are 40 year old moms out there who love Twilight, so...who knows?)

I would definitely read it. There are not a lot of books about female aspies so you might actually want to say from the start that she has Asperger's. It sounds like it might be a nice story for young female aspies to relate to. I know I certainly would have loved to read something like that when I was in highschool. And as I said already, I'd read it now.

Of course it's worth it.

Will it be commercially successful? Well that depends how well you write, who might publish it, and how it might be received by people who make commercial decisions at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. But given the success of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime I do not see the main character's AS as an impediment.

Sure it is worth trying.
I also would like to write a book, but I don't know how to start

I have always wanted to write something like this. It's a very good idea if you've got the skills so go for it! I tried to do a manga about a guy with AS (Strange how I want to do the opposite sex...) and I did decide to just have the character acting 'odd' at the beginning, diagnosis revealed later. I created a second character who was interested in him and decided to sort of look out for him. I will probably write or draw a story like that one day but I need to actually get a beggining middle and end rather than a complete mishmash of ideas.

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