Aspie authors writing social interaction

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I have written lot of poetry and quite a a few articles for an on line magazine but real writing of fiction eludes me as I find difficulty putting myself into the minds of characters. I frankly do not seem to have the emotional outlook of other people and that brings difficulties.

Just because I personally don't do well socially doesn't mean that I don't understand the rules. I just find it impossible to follow them most of the time.

I've written two novels in the past year and let a few online friends read them. Everyone who has responded was impressed by them and enjoyed the stories. So, cool.

Course, the first book is about a boy who turns into a wall . . . hmm.

Oddly enough, I think I discovered Asperger's Syndrome after having written a semi-autobiographical short story about a socially ret*d boy named Asper who can't ride a bike. I had originally named him after Hans Asper, a Swiss painter, and I'm not sure if I had read something about AS somewhere and forgotten it or if it's a huge coincidence.

I've loved writing ever since I was little, used to work for a magazine and am now a columnist for the Big Idea (a creative community in New Zealand). I find mindmaps really useful for organising structure and planning: http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/article.php?sid=4580

I've also written a column on Indie Authors and self publishing: http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/article.php?sid=4817

I have very little problem writing dialogue. I've watched too much TV and spent too many years listening to others dialogue for that

It took me a total of 2 months to write the book I'm currently editing. That was 2 years ago. I refuse to send it anywhere to anyone until I'm 110% satisfied with it.

I realize this is self-loathing behavior since I'm inclined to dissatisfaction with everything but *shrug*

Perhaps I've mentioned before that I and Julien-littleone (she's joined recently, though she doesn't post much because she's been busy with things) are writing a stream-of-consciousness story together. The other day, I was having some ideas for a series of new drawings, and it occurred to me that we might use them to illustrate our story. They wouldn't fit as examples of our characters' drawing - both our principal characters do have an artistic talent, but one is a strictly Realist/Impressionist painter while the other only does realistic, photographic sketches of animals, - but I thought that they could serve as a sort of commentary from the author, illustrating some of the strongest emotions in the story which perhaps can't fully put into words (i.e. "the author is a visual thinker and has run out of words at this point, so she felt she'd rather paint a picture" ). Once I formulated this idea to myself, it felt very engaging and now I can't let go of it.

What does everyone think? I thought that maybe we could start posting small bits of our writing along with the accompanying drawings, to show which drawing matches which place in the story, and see how it goes.

Unlike some of the posters in this forum, I use writing as a form of social interaction. This is akin to talking to myself. I do not expect an answer, but I do love to talk. I write poetry and short stories as a way of communicating an idea, only it is written much larger and longer than these comments. I am not very adept at conversaation, so there are a lot of monolgues in my writing. If people do not read or dislike what I have written, it is their prerogative to disregard it. We cannot like everything to which we are exposed.

yes i do