Aspie authors writing social interaction

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Novelgurl,
I'm the oppoistie. I save emotions till the final draft. Then they're added in.
I prefer building supense.

And I'm prankster, indirect, and determiened to keep moving.
Such a talent for a writer.

[quote="Giftorcurse"]Someone had posted earlier about envisioning actors as characters in fiction. I have a tendency to do that.[/quote]

that chosen context could be quite damaging and serious if actually played out in full force. of course one does not simply need to imply that he or she is correct in choosing an original protagonist in light of full viewing. i guess though you may be comparing yourself to Spielberg in a sense. As he's a quite hands-on director. might i suggest you channel your energies in an area whereby a more challenged role of pursuit would follow?

Oh god yes. I can start writing with the intent to write a five thousand word one shot, and fifty thousand words later... still clacking away.

You cant edit out a plot you've started which i find many people aren't prepared for,from what i hear on here, they get confused by the main storyline. If you create a fictional character and are unsure which part you should be writing for them, the equation is simple. Writing about an imaginary character can be easy once you know what they're doing in the story but finding a non-fictional person to replace them later on, isn't really going to take on the full-effect of the crypticness in the first place.
In the early days of my writing as an entrepreneurial author, i found it easy to dictate an imaginary protagonist in my story, like a lost elf.,which i won first prize for. When i got older i found that adding on more people who may actually speak out in their title role has an absolute bearing on the graph of the main story.

Adding an abjective person who kind of finds out something is missing at the end, doesn't really hold it together nicely really and you cant just analyze a scene you have to naturally observe all the main characters from head to toe so they can carry out their role in the story.
Of course, if you're adding a lot of drama to the scene in the chapter of the story then you need to be prepared for alot of distinguished detail.
I agree it is hard to grasp some of this until you've learned to discover your inner self in writing.

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Ladies and gents, that is my story.

That box it's in is the top ten for that site, which happens to be one of the premier sites for MLP fanfics out there.

Top. Ten.

Cloud Nine. Top 'o The World. Nirvana.

SO. HAPPY/

Ending work?
There are tips.

Read some novel endings.
And watch some movies.

For quite a while, I've become increasingly interested in the genre of "metafiction."

I feel it's dissapointing in a way that metafictional works rarely become best-sellers in the U.S. The readership public often treats metafiction as too intellectual. Yet, I strongly feel (I'm not the only person) that stories applying metafictional aspects can gain a wide following; a cross between "a cult classic" and a spot on many best-seller lists.

By any chance, has anybody with Aspergers considered reading (and even writing) metafiction as an excellent alternative to interests in factual content e.g. news, documentaries, non-fiction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction

When I tried this, my English teacher told me I made a story far too complicated. I actually enjoyed the planning of the complexity and also creating a puzzle in a story. Other feedback was this is unnecessary and just write a story. I wouldn't want to write without some level of complexity.

To answer the OP, anyone who is happy to sit alone long enough and dream up whole worlds themselves and conversations between others that they could never be part of must in some way be considered odd to society, until of course they write a multimillion pound best-seller later adapted into a movie. Well I think AS fits the bill nicely.

The good thing about imaginary dialogue is that you can control the outcome.
The hard part is making sure the characters motivations are in line with reality, I see it like a puzzle, a character is assigned an emotion following an event which may dissipate after a certain level of time or at the trigger of another event. Make sure the character is reacting properly. This is my flaw as I often fail to react.

A good tool is to people watch.

just how many of your stories are true?

As the post before I wonder you is this a question for me? Or intended for the OP or someone else?

If me none of my stories are true.

I find that I tend to mirror conversational styles from my favourite authors, and directors. If I've watched FIrefly recently. that means the conversation gets snappy, and a little playful. One of my favourite series (Feed, from the Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant) has a similar approach- the Whedon influences practically smack you in the face through her writing.

I re-wrote a Matrix-based piece with an reasonably functional aspie protagonist when I realized (just post-diagnosis) that I had written her as such - alternating analytical insight with confusion and a lot of deflection when under stress (usually in social situations). My casts are often larger than are strictly necessary, but the really focus is on maybe four or five of them- the rest are plot delivery systems. (See the links for examples; I wrote her with very mild AS because again, I only had my own (expected) reactions to go off of.

What I've found REALLY helpful is to imagine who I want a character to be like and model them after that. For instance, I have an original fic where a main character is modeled after Zoe from Firefly. She'll evolve, given time and plot, but that was who I saw her as, and I write her dialogue and actions accordingly.

amen to that!

Yes, and good question. Practice, practice, practice.
Socializing with others, getting to know the world, giving and receiving feedback are all ways to help manage dialogue in literature.

I think it is possible for you and other people with Asperger's to be able to gain success as writers.
Though I have a question. When you put out your stories did you make sure to leave something to let people know that you were the one who wrote them?

I'm having another moment in which I question whether I'm really cut out to write fiction after all. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy writing, but the aspects of writing that I enjoy the most appear to be the ones which modern literary trends discourage. Writing for me is a way of transcribing my imagination onto paper, a way of drawing, painting, or animating with words. I love describing my settings, characters, and actions. Unfortunately everyone else nowadays seems less interested in the visual or sensory aspects of writing than they are in the characters' psychological complexity and development. They don't want rich descriptions or world-building anymore, they want these emotional or moral journeys in which the characters become better or wiser people. They want fables about the "human condition", whatever that is.

As someone who has always struggled to understand how people tick, I find this frustrating. Characterization is probably my weakest area as a writer and I frankly don't find character development all that interesting anyway. Characters are important insofar as they are what make things happen, but I don't care so much about their inner psychological workings. I see them as actors animated on a movie screen, not people whose minds I can read. All this emphasis on psychological character development at the expense of sensory stimulation or world-building has made writing a lot less fun for me.

When my fiction has been critiqued, I have been told that I am gifted in dialogue and making the readers feel they know the characters. It's ironic because in real life I rarely speak, and when I do I invariably say the wrong thing. Strange as it sounds, I am using characters in my novel, derived from my own imagination, as my personal "teachers" when I need a new script for interacting with N.Ts'