Aspie authors writing social interaction

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I am a writer, but I have always had a problem that limits me: I write in English, which is a second language. And that's why I kind of gave up. Sometimes I write as a hobby, but I haven't taken it seriously in years.

I hadn't though of that. The English market is swamped indeed. I'll continue writing in English, but if things keep going wrong, I may switch to Spanish.

Would you read this? Main character is Asperger’s like me, but it’s only mentioned occasionally. “Laura Photia Hayes is an independent young woman on the streets after her mother dies. After being attacked by a monster straight out of Greek Mythology, she meets a woman called Ophelia who heals her injuries and tells her about a society ruled by the Roman Gods, a safe place for people like her. Pretending to be Ophelia’s illegitimate daughter brings its own difficulties as she goes into her freshman year at the New Rome High School. Facing judgemental Legacies, the descendants of the Gods, and standoffish magic users, she struggles to find her place among them. Now she must juggle searching for answers about who she really is with not raising others' suspicions. Who can she trust? Who will she trust? And in the end, will she choose the truth about her family or the family she has found?”

Title: "The Exams"

Genre: Horror

Plot:
Three men and three women are trapped in an empty school building. The only way they can escape is through three exams, one for physical, one for intellect and one for emotional well-being. However, the person who gets the highest total on all three combined will be allowed to leave but under one condition, the condition being to not talk about it for the remainder of his or her days. The others will be treated like prisoners for an extra year before being given a second chance.

I just put book number six on Kindle. Soon to be in paperback:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKKLPTYR

I've found text-based roleplaying can help get me more comfortable with writing social interaction. I'm a member of a science fiction / fantasy forum where a certain amount of this goes on. It's mostly silly and lightweight, but I've been in a couple of "campaigns" that were more high-quality.

Some of us have taken to introducing not just minor NPCs, but side-kicks and other recurring secondary characters, which makes it possible to script an entire conversation as an entry. I also ended up doing a collaborative Halloween story with a more experienced writer one year. It's a blast, but it also stretches me to get the "voices" of the different characters right. Wonder if trying something like that on here would work?

Have you thought about something like writing for games? Your more logical way of thinking would be really useful when it comes to planning quest chains for something like an RPG. Breaking up an extended game story into multiple branches and working out which character the player has to talk to, at which stage, to get which information, to take them to which location, etc tends to be the difficult bit for NT writers that I've worked with. You can get AI to write interesting dialogue, but the logic required for planning quests within the overall context of the game is something AI can't do well (if at all). Yet game developers who are good with logic tend to gravitate towards programming instead of writing. So you may find you are a perfect fit for that type of role as a writer.

Finally, after having published Six Times The Terror a year ago, I've finally gotten it on audio, thanks to a marvelous narrator by the name of Johnny Walker (no, really, that's his real name!).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR4DHF91/re ... 128&sr=1-3