Aspie authors writing social interaction

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I'm deeply involved in my writing these days, and would enjoy corresponding with any one who is a writer. I'd like to have someone to talk about ideas, character and so on.

well I'm an Aspie writer, and I've found that my lack of social skills made writing them so much more detailed.

we're observers, we watch social interaction, and because we are so clinical with our observations, we make the best authors.

I was lucky enough to find a proof reader living on my street, so I have pretty much worked out my novel, and he's even explained some of the instances that I couldn't understand.

My novel's called Setharum Legalis, a faux latin for Seth Legion, its a sci-war novel that I've been writing for way to long. but its coming together and those that have read it, have said its good, and these were people that had nothing to gain by complimenting me.

If people are interested in reading portions of it, I have it available on my website

I have bits and pieces of characters, and stories, and titles. I've been thinking about starting a thread for leftover bits that anyone is welcome to.
Anyone interested ???

Sometime in the future, every third female is chemically changed in the womb so that she can never have children. The parents don't know as the government does this secretly. But they know when the girl is born because she has a slight facial deformity like Downs, but hardly noticiable. People cruelly refer to them as 'mules' due to their inability to conceive. Of course this produces unforeseen problems like blokes chasing after them for sex since they're assured the woman isn't going to get pregnant. The mules secretly band together to support one another, but the government spies on them.
Don't know how it turns out ....

To any one who hasn't seen Redesigning Eva thread yet:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt99081.html

Personal note to Pretorius: The Scarlets are NOT sympathetic characters. At all.

Onalogue, monologue topic

Dialogue for me is a pain. Just like in real life.

there are a bunch of famous authors suspected of having AS or Autism. One that comes to mind would be H.P. Lovecraft. So yeah, it isnt really a hindrance IMO, as i think interaction is translated a bit differently through spoken and written acts.

I am in the early processes of writing a book based upon a young man with AS, whom becomes mayor of his community and leads it through a natural disaster. He is considered a "hero" in his community and wins a number of accolaides for his leadership. (It is going to be a fictional story, actually based upon a true story that I was a part of last year and experienced with a childhood friend.)

I am kind of unsure where to begin. I deeply understand the plot since I was a part of it and usually do a good job with setting when I write, but character development and conversations are difficult for me.

Another thing that I am concerned about is how my friend might take writing about him. We had a disagreement (that I still do not know what happened), that even though we speak to one another when we run into one another, we are kind of at odds with each other. Sometimes, I feel that writing kind of causes me to think about and live in the moment, reliving what good times were had.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

hmm.... weird thing happened. I found a portfolio of creative writing projects i have done, and decided to go through them little by little with some guy who runs a bookstore in my area. (well, he knows i want to get into the career of writing. So he asked if i had stuff to show him.)

well, the majority of what he said was about my writing style and how "very" similar it is to Edgar Allen Poe's style of writing. He didn't elaborate on that point further. Ive also gotten compared to Edgar Allen Poe already in a different case. Ive done area building on a MUD I have played before, and a lot of my descriptions have been described as reminiscent of Poe's work, the same went for when I have done RP on the same game as well.

now i have no clue on what his writing style is like (yes I have read his works but never payed attention to his style of writing). If anyone would mind giving a short description of his writing style, id be grateful.

His style is passionate, intense and morbid, with a lot of big words.

The second paragraph from "The Cask of Amontillado"
"It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

Sorry for the long entry! It is a serious question many of you asked, what it is like to publish a book when a person has AS.

I just published a book, called A Worse Case Scenario: Art Death and Asperger's. It's about discovering I had Asperger's within the last two years. I'm an artist of 50 and have had an unusual life. I was lucky enough to find and live in the artist section of Baltimore and there were many, many people like me there, all of them undiagnosed at the time and some mixed with other things, like OCD etc. (I have been diagnosed only within the last two years). I was lucky to have lived in Baltimore for 17 years (I had already been visiting there for six). For five years I live in Orlando now.

The neighborhood changed and I decided to move. After three years here, a I met someone who had it, and then I found out I had it. I had only recently been seeing a doctor for some depression. He says I have it (honestly, ultimately, I would not care what anyone said. No one knows the little details like you yourself after five decades!)

My book begins with three exteme tragedies. How does a person like I am, cope with jarring life-changing events? How did I cope, almost totally alone? How is it to look back at things that led to that point, when there is a mystery thing that hovers throughout life (in hindsight); knowing you are not like others? My mother would say throughout my entire life, "You were never like the other children," but I was lucky, my mother liked that I was different (although there were things that made her and teachers absolutely nuts). In contrast, I see the horrible things the younger people have gone through in being negatively labled. I can't believe some of the garbage that I have seen or heard. Some of these celebrities should be flogged.

Many people tell me they actually loved the book, that it was enlightening, and/or they had no idea AS existed. They (some co-workers! Yikes!) get to read about many highly personal things; but if I am going to go back there in time, there of course is some sex, which happened much later than most people experience (sound familiar to any of you?). I also picked a guy, as I understand now, who was/is blatantly one of us (he also has a 200 IQ). The romance is an example how things can go down (or sideways) when both have it. Actually, most of book is told with humor.

I pretty much relay things I have experienced, keeping my viewpoint steady of interpreting what it is like to see the world through the eyes of an individual AS person. There are many misinterpretations. Some of things can be figured out in time now, with some age, but not perceived at that time in the past.

I published with iUniverse, it's on Amazon etc. It is being sold around the world (like Amazon or Borders in different countries), it's only been out a month. Who knows? I just hope nobody is ripping me off. I'll let you all know if they are.

Practical advise: if you want to write a book, be prepared for longer ride than you thought it would be. Be prepared to work obsessively. It is very hard when the editing is done. Do nothing without The Chicago Manual of Style. It is a writer's Bible. You have to be focused and determined to see it through.

As an author of two romance novels whose narrator has many of the regular AS issues (AS is not mentioned name in either novel, but can be inferred by his background), I would be very interested in interacting with other authors so that we can promote and improve each other's works.