Aspie authors writing social interaction

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I am really bad with dialogue. For my English class, we had to write modernized versions of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet with different language. My romantic dialogue was so bad, and I never usually write romantic stuff because I know that it would come off as very stilted because I have no idea how people speak when they are in relationships. My strengths are first person characters introspecting, outside the box plot twists and stories, scenery descriptions and good imagery. I think I did terribly on that assignment, and it confirmed my suspicion that I cannot write romance.

I find I have the same problem as you I'm fine with writing the more structural stuff the exposition and as mine is a war story the battles but the character development is hard.

Here's my latest rough plot outline for a fantasy short story/novella:

I can write about 3000 in one sitting but after that I get a bit burned out 10000 might be possible for me one day if I forced myself. My problem it takes me so long to fill in the dialogue and I don't really do much of a plan.

Just finished a chapter-by-chapter outline for my fantasy story, which I'm calling Heart of the God. It's a tale which will feature pirates, dinosaurs, evil gods, tribal warfare, and hot interracial sex.

This is just a personal view, but I think you can still be a successful writer, even if you don't interact often. Writing is very abstract. Maybe you can write fables, or a children's novel. You can get your ideas reading other books.

Not everyone has the same tastes either. I don't really like Stephen King's stories. They're just not in my list of interesting novels. Yet To Kill a Mockingbird was a very good read.

I don't think I know of any writers that has Aspergers though. But I would find it hard to believe if there wasn't a successful Aspergers writer.

Jane Austin is believed to have had it her hand writing and spelling where almost unreadable apparently .

Greg Egan is reckoned to be aspie.

I always have the main character of my stories to have Asperger's, or at least traits and write the whole story in first person perspective from that character. In my Lion King and Sonic fan fictions, I just write myself into the story. When I wrote myself into my fan fictions as an unbeatable super heroine figure who could talk to animals and served as Simba's veterinarian and game warden, I probably would have been considered a Mary Sue by anyone who read it other than my parents; but at the time, writing them was very therapeutic. I based the villains off of real life people I didn't like and gave them a very similar name. For instance, there was a zoologist in real life I had decided I didn't like whose name is Tim. In the fan fictions, his name was Jim. When I wrote stories as a little kid, I would use my teachers and kids who were mean to me as villains and call them by their real names, but as I grew older, I learned this was wrong if I ever wanted to get published and it never made for an interesting villain. My most notorious villain was originally based of a real life zoologist by the name of Tim Clutton-Brock; who for some reason I decided I didn't like. In the stories, his name was Jim Blutton-Crock but I soon realized that was too obvious and anyone who had two brain cells and knew who Tim Clutton-Brock was would know who my villain was supposed to be. As I got better at writing and more mature and realized Tim Tim Clutton-Brock isn't as bad as I thought he was, I only kept the name Jim but made him more of a cross between Harry Harlow and Sonic SatAM Robotnick and even threw in some traits of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Anyway, I was never able to write a story with social interaction in it or from the POV of another character (my protagonists/narrators are basically me). My stories always have to be written in first person perspective via a character that has the same ideals as a me. I've always been told that my stories are "very descriptive" or that they "come alive", so I guess I put more effort into the details than the social interaction. I only put as much social interaction that is needed to get the story moving along.

I find any fictitious universe I create to write a novel in a quickly get distracted and turn to writing a Wikipedia style article tracing its history backwards and forwards a few thousand years.

I'm currently working on a comic book and a novel. So far the novel doesn't have a single written word, but the comic book has about a fifth of the first draft written, but nothing illustrated yet. It takes quite a while for my thoughts and ideas to evolve into a story.

If you want to get the writing out there you can send your stories to one of the many writing competitions which you can find online. This can be very disappointing when you are rejected time after time but if you learn to expect rejection it can be useful because you have a deadline on which you must finish your story and that deadline can help you progress. I used to put my short stories in for writing competitions and failed to get anywhere and eventually gave up, but then I got a letter and a cheque for £50 through the door for a story I had entered in a competition months before. I had won 5th prize.

I think that Aspie writing can be more original, and in a way more refreshing than NT writing. We have a unique way of looking at the world which is interesting for many people. I am writing my second novel atm. (The first one is sitting in a box, and on a memory stick, unpublished, almost unseen, because there are problems with it that I haven't been able to sort out.)