Aspie authors writing social interaction

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This is my second-ever post on Wrongplanet! I just joined (this website) last night (and experimented with the online "chat" feature - which went well).

Today (now), I am browsing these discussion forums (again, for the very-first time). Now, what all-that has to do with YOU is this:

I'm delighted to find a discussion thread such as this one!!

A serious writer, myself (for over eight years), I wanna just say that I support all your efforts here(!), cuz I def. know how difficult writing can sometimes get, so this is def. a thread that I wanna "get my feet wet (on)" and show support for! (Haha! Ignore that grammar!)

"Break a leg (keyboard/pen)", everyone!! !

Dude, did my last post even 'post'?! LOL. I don' see it.

OK. Here goes 'one mo' aghee-uhn'!

"All of THIS - and other fabulous prizes - on America's favorite gameshow: 'Wheel Of...."'

Ok! I see it now!

I'm good! Yay!

Me too. My pop culture memory is darn near eidetic when it comes to lyrics, linguistic patterns, note patterns. I'm not sure it's so much a case of being creative as simply being a repository for the creativity of many, many other people that I then coalesce into my own work. Certainly, that's the case with music; I can sing in most keys and be pretty accurate but have a hard time writing my own music.

There's something I love about writing diagoule compared to real diagule. I just self publised the TRUTH HURTS under the name Bettie Mills and I love being able to insert descrption between words and make sentences jerky but nice.
- “Stinky noisy inhaler… Bet you don’t like it,” Asha popped her white item back into her pocket, flipping through her pockets. “How was your weekend?”
Isabel shrugged, “Ended up with somebody who said she was my nurse.”
Asha popped her hands over Isabel’s mouth. “Goodness gracious, rumors are true!”
Isabel struggled free. “Is that a big deal?”
“You better be quiet, Isabel.” Asha popped her hand over Isabel's mouth.
Asha lowered her voice to a whisper. But Isabel, she could hear every word. “You don’t want to get Josephine in more trouble…”
“You’re not in danger. Why do you care?”

And I love being able to make a character say something you'd never hear in real life.
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Opening and closing John’s legs like a weed whacker, Dylan headed straight for Isabel. “What did I ever do to you, Dylan?” Isabel asked. Dylan tapped his chin, “Lets’ see,” he said, “Easy-you were born,”

One thing that is hard for supense novels is trying to go into the "villian mind set, but it's nessacary. I've managed it, but it can get difficult.

I find that new things grow from what I know, with the personalities I've seen being references for what I think of when I think of a particular kind of person. I myself don't know how someone who loves fashion and parties thinks in any way that isn't stereotyped, but I know how people I know who love those things and aren't stereotyped think. The best is a combination of two things, though: what I already know of people and



What people would never say, even though they're capable of it. The best and worst of the world.

And novel Conversation always advances something. Not like real life when ton of time is wasted by talking about the weather.
That's what I love about books. No time is wasted.

I love writing poetry. I think that a lot of famous poets were not NT, just look at Emily Dickinson. Poetry does not require multiple character or much description of social interaction. I find it much easier to write a poem than a novel.

I used to write poetry. I even managed to get published and used a poem to get into an art program where I did workshops with my state's Poet Laureate. Thing is, poetry has always scared the hell out of me because it seems like you're either really good or really bad. And the poet himself can't make that decision. Critics do.

It's like painting in the style of Jackson Pollack. Only someone with an intimate knowledge of the medium and credentials can decide if you've made something legitimately valuable, or a bunch of splatters on a canvas.

Personally, I've never received any major negative feedback about dialogue/interaction in the creative writing and English classes I took. The only exceptions were 1.) when I wrote an awkward-sounding phrase of dialogue for a short story and 2.) when I tried too hard to capture a 'male' POV (excessive swearing /= masculinity--got it! )

I send my writing to various teachers in my school and some writers I'm familliar with. All have given me positive feedback and almost all of 'em had some social interaction involved. I think aspies have the capacity to go deeper and form an ongoing, pretty interesting conversation all by themselves. That's usually what bugs us. Since we "plan ahead" and expect people to react the way we want them to react, when they do something that's not part of our plan then.. Well, the plan crashes and we [at least I] go like this . But still, we can create pretty cool dialogues.
So I think it's quite expectable for an Aspie to be a successful awesome writer as well as NT writers.

Not long ago, I wrote a story that I hope will sell well...
It's called Puzzling Love - Part I: Distant Meeting. It's the story of an autistic college student who gets in a long-distance relationship, and how the two of them began to fall in love with each other.

It ends on a cliffhanger, but my fiancee's friend told me that she liked the book.
Don't worry, I'm writing Part II even as I speak. If you wish to buy it, search for it on CreateSpace.

I've been having bad luck with stuff that's supposed to be saved on my computer. Last week, my hard drive died, and with it, everything not saved. Well, my computer guy had a spare hard drive on hand, and also installed Linux for us. Luckily, my short stories were all saved in floppy disk - or so I thought. It turns out the floppies with my finished products must have been defective, because he couldn't transfer anything on those to the new files. Luckily, I had made hard copies of those stories already. Then, when I started working on something new last night, the new system, which has been acting buggy (windows opening out of control on the screen, then losing the page I was on) every so often, decided to act buggy again, causing me to lose the story. I don't think I have to explain to anyone on WP about the kind of melt down I had had early this morning, save to say it was loud, as in reverberating off the walls loud, and laced with profanity. I've been depressed all day over that loss, even though my wife has been helping me to set up something that will work. It's a new operating system, and I'm admittedly the only living Aspie not up on computers.

I am thinking about writing a book/short story very soon.

It will be all about a female social worker who is very kind and loving with a pure heart and a selfless desire to help others.

She is thus thrown in the 'thick of it' out on the city streets and notices how a lot of poverty and desperation is caused by man's inhumanity towards man...she sees drug pushers pushing drugs to kids, prostitutes being abused and pimps getting rich off their suffering and misery, elderly pensioners robbed of their savings and evicted from their houses by greedy landlords...

She tries to go to the authorities...going through all of the 'correct channels' and reporting whatever bad things are going on, but she is either pushed from pillar to post then wrapped up in political/bureaucratic 'red tape' or she is totally ignored with a 'this is *insert city here* what do you expect? we are rushed off our feet...put it on the pile and we'll get to it'.

Then, one night on the way to her car, she is sexually assaulted herself.

Her friends suggest she get a gun for her own protection because she's working in a very dangerous environment and can use it for 'deterrent purposes only', but she refuses because she's 'anti-gun' and a total pacifist being in the helping/healing profession...but her friends leave it with her and tell her to just 'think about it'...she makes a huge fuss, but eventually gives in.

The next night, she decides she doesn't want the gun and goes to return it to her friend, but on the way, something happens...

She notices a very old lady walking with a walking frame and a bag on her arm...next second, a thug appears out of the shadows, knocks the elderly lady down to the ground unconscious, grabs her bag and starts running...so what does she do? she takes the gun out of her bag and shoots the thug in the back, killing him as he's trying to make an escape.

She puts the gun away, rings for an ambulance, then vomits a few times on the way back to her house....she spends the next few days in a psychological mess, trying to come to terms with what she had just done...

...but once she did, she found she could do it again...and again...

Her aim? to reduce the countries welfare debt and put social workers and counselors out of business.

Thus, she becomes a vigilante and the whole stories/books will be on a case-by-case basis and her efforts to always try and stay one step ahead of the law and not get caught.

It will be like Death Note meets Dexter with a female main character and it will be losely based on my own life and personal experiences...

It will be a treatise on gun laws, the welfare system, the justice system and contain many ethical conundrums...it will make people think 'what would I do in each situation?

So, I will thus use my 'difficulties in social interaction' to influence my writing.

In my science fiction stories that I write social interaction is featured heavily, what I currently write one is a epic war tale mainly about adventure, friendship, love and characters genetically programmed to place social interaction and empathy over physical posessions, also in most stories alien and future cultures get explored a lot. The main work is set on an unspecified date in the mid- or far future about an Earth-born human teenage girl joining a military spacefleet, with a alternative version set in 2005 CE about a very human-like alien, in a large intergalactic war (well, to be honest such a story idea may not be entirely new in the genre^^).

my books (not complete online)

http://pt-br.widbook.com/ebook/dakota-l ... -guimaraes

http://pt-br.widbook.com/ebook/dias-do-acaso