Problems with Writing articles, stories etc. ?

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Has anyone found that their writing is criticized as lacking flow, being too detailed or wordy etc. ? As if you and the person reading the piece speak two different languages. I am wondering if AS can affect this in any way since writing is a form of communication? I do freelance writing but am a bit discouraged because one company rejected my assessment sample, and I have run into situations like that before, although I have heard bad things about this particular company anyhow, and there are other ones I work for who do appreciate my contributions so it's not the end of the world. I have found that more flexible, less structured types of writing are more natural for me, as opposed to rigid, rule-bound styles such as copywriting, tried it once, and totally hated it. Anyone else have such an experience with writing that may be related to AS?

I don't get many comments about my work but I notice I tend to get too detailed and stuck in them I go away from the story and I have gotten from one of my readers it makes it harder for them to follow. I try and not put in so much detail. I often proofread and not put in everything or make the characters go on and on when they are talking.

I just write for fun, I don't write for any professional business or trying to get my work published.

My writing has been critisized for too many words, too detailed explanations, for being too "professor-like" and apparently aimed at professionals, for the use of too many advanced words AND having too little flow, - and yes!....I think it has to do with AS (but I´ve learned).
Most aspies need to be precise (I personally have difficulty understanding imprecise descriptions or arguments, so I feel obliged to be precise).
Things have to be described in all aspects to be understood correctly.
Advanced professional language has a wonderful ability to implicate a number of aspects in one word (AS need of being rational) - and....the need for precision can strangle the flow!
I sure would like to have the ability to write less structured with more vivid flow. If that is natural for you - go for it!
If so, you probably shouldn´t go for jobs doing technical stuff

Good writing is a relationship between writer and reader. What may be considered good writing in the context of one audience is poor writing in another context.
For example here are 3 of my poems.
OLD AGE
Everyone vanished
Their replacements
Don't fool me!
............
Reality is
God's face
Words are
Sticky notes
Who can resist?
.....
Every time I
See my life
I smirk
Like a dying man
Overhearing
His nurse's
Absurd gossip.

I have received rave reviews from poetry forums but smirks from fellow workers. This thread made me think. Are my poems aspie like or aspie lite?
They seem skeletal in their precision and lack the ornamentation of normal poetry. Perhaps we can form a publishing house for aspie writers and aspie readers.
I prefer non-fiction (about the only fiction I have read are Vonnegot and Herman Hess). When reading fiction I have the annoying habit of thinking, get to the point!

I don't have problems with writing in general. Writing helps me express myself through stories and also by explaining my thoughts. I do have trouble with writing articles though. I couldn't even do current events in school because they were so challenging. I think a lot of that had to do with poor reading comprehension though. D: I've always wanted to write articles on this writing site I'm on though, but I could never do it. It really sucks because I have so many article ideas, yet I can't seem to do them.

By the way, if you want an example of how I write: http://www.mibba.com/Member/293353/Stories/

The problem I have is finishing them. I get so many different ideas that I scrap a lot of my older ones too. I think this is more due to ADHD than autism. I hate it because I would love to get published someday, but I have to practice and push myself to actually finish something. I have a hard time with writing what people tell me to write. If you told me to write about a unicorn and a princess, I wouldn't be able to do it. It has to come from me and no one else.

Most of my posts are short, because I struggle greatly with vocabulary and sentence transitions. My verbal comprehension is good, but dyslexia tends to render handwriting illegible. Because I'm not great at transitions, my English teachers push for more descriptions and stuff like that because I apparently move on too quickly.

Writing has been one of my biggest struggles in life, and usually where people who once thought of me as intelligent start to have doubts.

I like efficient, yet detailed and precise writing. I am good at writing documentation manuals for the work that I do, technical writing, but I get really bogged down with expository writing, and won't even try story writing.

I will start in one direction and spiral in tighter and tighter where there's no unwinding and I can't get past a few paragraphs without freezing up. In school I would spend hours and hours writing a page or so and still feel like it was just a collection of barely connected sentences.

I like your poems, Witt.

For descriptive writing I'm really good with that in fact I kinda got called out by my teacher for being too descriptive However one of my writing assignments this week is to describe something beautiful which for me is hard to do because everything I see tends to be in black in white I don't really see things that are "beautiful" so I may have to outsource it to an NT who knows what beautiful is.

I cringe because later on I will have to write a story where I am a hero in a story as well as write a plot to a movie that I have seen ( I guess I could just take from IMDB for that one)

If I think more and more about what I have to write the more I get writer's block normally for me if I see what the assignment is I can turn out a rough draft about it within 5 mins from there it goes through 3-4 revisions before I pass it on the teacher.