AS in your work

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Artists, I have a question for you...

it feels like all of my work lately has been about my AS. Do you often find it seeping into your work?

Give me examples! I want to see/hear/read some awesome stuff.

I wrote a book. Five years later I discovered Wrong Planet, and that I was, and not alone.

When I went back and read the book, it was AS from every angle. I was describing the world as I saw it.

After six months of Wrong Planet I did a rewrite, this time I had a clearer idea, the plot was the same, but the characters had their traits filled out. They became better characters for it.

Another eight months, thinking of the next re write, I learn a lot around here.

I think my drawing is AS, my hand writing is.

Nothing to post at the moment, I have been meaning to learn how for a year, I will get to it.

So what is your medium?

I too wrote a book, but since it was just about what was going on, it's not very AS. Just my slightly twisted version of events. My art (back when I used to do it), no, nothing obvious.
Old short stories, maybe. I did some strange stuff. Here's an example:

(No, I've never killed anyone.)

When I draw people, they tend not to have faces, wold you consider that and AS thing? And my handwriting is really small and messy, but really clear to me.

EDIT: Stupid spelling, I wasn't pressing the keys hard enough

Last edited by just_ben on 14 May 2008, 6:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

If I'm writing it's really difficult for me to envision distinct faces for my characters, if that's what you mean.

What I was talking about, is if your AS has influenced your work in any way. I just made a movie where the topic has nothing to do with my AS, but there is a theme of feeling left out and isolated (even though it was sort of accidental), or really of just being different. I didn't even realize this until after my movie was finished. It turned out pretty cool though.

In a manner of speaking... my original works tend to be quirky, fragmented, disjunct and rhythmic - which is a rough description of how I experience the world around me. This is the case whether is it free verse or music, the two major veins in which my creativity expresses itself. Frequently, the music is a narrative - 'Calico Afternoon' is a marimba duet I recently finished that attempts to capture moments of my little tortoise-shell in various states.


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I have written a few songs that were inspired by the AS experience, although I did not look at them this way while I was writing them. They're all about being socially isolated, socially invisible, in one's own world . . .

I think that one would not need to have AS to relate to these songs, though. Even highly extroverted people with active social lives occasionally have these kinds of feelings, thoughts, and experiences. I say they have to do with AS because it was the intensity and frequency of these experiences that drove me to write about them.

And also a calculus-driven plot for the last two books in three I wrote...

It's actually because the action began to turn around calculus, when I began searching for pretty girls in college that were calculus-capable.