Aspie authors writing social interaction

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Honestly, I've never really had trouble writing social interaction? I guess it's because I understand it pretty well on an intellectual level, I just have no instinct for it in real life. I mostly write fanfiction (yeah, yeah) and everyone always praises my characterization and dialogue, so I assume I'm doing it right, lol.

After a summer long dry spell, I'm finally back to writing again. As my daughter has to go to bed at a reasonable hour now in order to get up for school (and my wife with her), I can have the apartment all to myself and write at night like I'm used to.

Virginia Woolf I believe was suspected to have Aspergers, and so was Hans Christian Anderson

H. Lovecraft, probably the most influential and revolutionary 20th century author of horror fiction, almost certainly was, and so probably was the father of American heroic fantasy, Robert E. Howard.

I'm writing a young adult fantasy about three friends on the spectrum. It's sort of an urban fantasy, yet involves a magical world that has contact with our own. I don't really know what sub genre of fantasy it fits into. Eventually war breaks out between the two worlds and the characters have to find a way to set things right. If anyone's interested in a more detailed plot details I can give them to you. Also, the novel has dragons, magic guns, and goblin zeppelins so I think it is pretty cool.

I make a part time living in writing books. So far I have done for children, young and older adults too. I really like poetry best.

After losing everything I had written in a novel I had been working on and off on for some time when our last computer took a swan dive, I finally rediscovered the inspiration to start work on it again. This time I've got it saved on a stick.

Good for you! Congrats on your fortitude and dearly gained wisdom. Onwards & upwards!

Yes this is very sensible to do. I have too lost a lot of precious thoughts and work. I was so upset that I did not write for many months also.

Now I save on an external HD or to a memory stick.
I would advise back up once every week or every time you write something new. I do this daily to once every couple of days, because I write so much. I have over 15 years of work. If any of it ever got lost now...

Life will be very miserable and I will be very depressed and sad for a long time.

People do not always understand the value that work can hold...writing, music, art, it is all expression. It is like...pieces of your Soul. I will be so lost in sadness if I lose any more. I cannot think about the implications of the loss of my work now.

Please don't think of it as something lost. What is lost is the form that it had. It remains in your mind and soul as however it got processed and is available for expression in your future writing, possibly as something brand new or from another angle or depth. Do not despair.

Thank you everyone for the encouraging words.
As a matter of fact, in the earlier draft I had lost, there had been some lapses in logic that I couldn't resolve at the time, and so hopefully this will afford me the opportunity to fix it.

Actually on my tenth part of a long series but I've only self published two parts online so far. It probably crap but who cares.

I'm currently in a period of depression and am finding it rather hard to write at the moment.

For many years, I've had a character in my head of a superhero with Asperger's and faces the exact same problems I have in life. I have a picture of him in my head and how he'd act and talk but I've never been able to write a story about him.

Sometimes there are little tricks you can use to get away with it.

It really depends on what kind of story your writing, really.

For example, if you write Sci-Fi.

This actually makes things easier - the main characters might be a part of a space military or space marine group. They would be serious and formal, not laidback and social.

If you have alien or extraterrestial characters, they would have different cultural conventions and social rules.

I remember watching an episode of the tv show, 'Ben 10: Omniverse'. On the show there was an alien character named 'Rook'.

He reminded me of an Aspie - he had little understanding of human behavior or cultural conventions.

It can also work for other genres, such as Fantasy.

In Fantasy there may be characters of different species or groups - an elf species might live socially and culturally different than normal NT social behavior.

Just my two cents.

Does anyone find it difficult to write short stories? I'm curious, because for me, they are a major pain in the posterior, partially because I have to condense a story idea into a very limited number of pages. I have a tendency to overthink things, I guess.

I've heard it said by my former creative writing instructors in college that writing a novel is actually easier than writing a short story, as not only is length a factor, but also, as flaws are much more apparent in a short story, it has to be virtually perfect, compared to a book in which flaws would be much less noticeable due to length of the text.