Aspie authors writing social interaction

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I'll join your group, sir, but I'm afraid the people on your list are all dead.

(Seriously, count me in.)

yes you can. I am working on a story and a story of it is politics arguments.

Though it may suck. I might simply have someone else do and work on the conversation parts/improve it.

I can do good narration however.

Annie Books is a series written by an author and illustrator with Asperger's and they were just awarded with a Mom's Choice Award Gold Series. Pretty cool.

Who has a current writing-project and needs someone to bounce ideas off of? I am ready to hear about anybody's ideas, anytime. As it happens, I have more than a few ideas stored away on my computer hard drive and the central processor between my ears.

Strangely enough, I'm great at writing dialog. When I first started co-writing a fantasy novel with my NT friend, I did the dialog while he did the fight scenes. If you know your own characters, chances are you know how they talk and what they say.

Im good at dialouge too, its description I need help with.

read about my technique when I write social interaction here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt72477.html

I'm writing a philosophical work. Which is odd, considering us Aspies are suppoed to be crap at that.

I've been writing poetry and short stories for years and I long to write a novel. However, I find my main problem is planning, as I like to think out each bit at a time and after a certain length this rambles too off topic. I'm also a little worried about my characters and their conversations too, as I have trouble seeing the world from other people's perspectives. Description is probably my strong point

I would join if you made one!! !

I started writing a novel and would like someone to bounce ideas off of. If anyone is interested pm me and I'll send the prologue & 1st chapter. I'd like some tips on dialogue considering I'm crap at writing it (description is my strong point ).

I would throw Hunter Thompson onto the list and maybe Richard Brautigan (sp?)

Hi, I just found this message discussion and thought it was interesting. I didn't read through all 10 pages of the messages though. The original post wondered about Aspie authors. Here are the ones I have found through research---and they may all have been noted in later postings:

Emily Dickinson, Hans Christian Anderson, Herman Melville, William Butler Yeats, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Orwell, Patricia Highsmith, etc.

I especially find the character of Bartleby in Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby" to be most interesting. Was Bartleby autistic?

As far as a beatiful story, I love Anderson's "The Snow Queen."

I have no problem with writing stories and poetry---and I have Asperger's. The original post discussed the possibility that we Aspie writers might have difficulty with the social interactions of our characters. But for me, I don't have problems with this---where I do have the problem is in real life when I am in the social situation. Can others relate to this?

I can relate. Many of my characters were not NT though none had Asperger's. One story had a neurotic man fall in love with a psychotic woman.

I have wondered whether Dickens was on the spectrum. Partly because of the intense eye for detail - and his biographies always comment on his great memory for detail and his eccentricity. Also, his characters are portrayed from the outside rather than from the inside. He is portraying them from observation and they are very external, like caricatures. He doesn't go into their inward feelings and their psychology, or make any attempt to explain why they are as they are.

You can go around the social interaction problem if you turn that into one of the difficulties of the story. At this moment I'm writing a s-f novel that precisely deals with failed communication and social awkwardness between people of different planets who simply don't get each other's point. Sounds familiar? Use what you have lived, and build a story about it.

Garyww, I love the weirdness of Richard Brautigan. I don't know why I never considered he might be an Aspie.

If the writing group gets off the ground I would love to see a compendium of members' writing on lulu or somesuch. I suppose that's jumping pretty far ahead, though.