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FigginOfDeath
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Joined: Feb 28, 2008
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Location: Berkeley, California
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| Strangely enough, I'm great at writing dialog. When I first started co-writing a fantasy novel with my NT friend, I did the dialog while he did the fight scenes. If you know your own characters, chances are you know how they talk and what they say. |
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LazyLara
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Age: 17
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Im good at dialouge too, its description I need help with. |
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BRpoet
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Just found this yesterday. It is a list of famous people, inventors, musicians, writers, movie stars, characters in shows, etc with Aspie traits or diagnosed already. Just fyi in response to question about anyone knowing where they can find a list of famous writers with Aspergers.
type "Famous People with Autistic Traits" and find a site from geocities - the guy's name is richardg from the UK
Sorry, I'm new to the board and they won't let me put a website on here although this is a legitimate resource. I'm a social worker, not a spam artist but I just joined this thing to answer the question and I thought the site would be helpful for others newly diagnosed or who need inspiration.
Those of you who are into writing-check out Writing dot com It give you a chance to put all your writing on your portfolio and have others read and rate/review you as well as allowing you to do the same. They have an Autism forum there too, for writers who are parents of or who have an ASD. |
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BokeKaeru
Phoenix
Joined: Jun 23, 2008
Age: 22
Posts: 600
Location: Alternately Los Angeles, CA and Northampton, MA
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Well, fictional dialogue is somewhat different than real dialogue, as it usually has a point, and is going towards something - it has its place in the grand scheme of things, and things that are said must be said, or at least lead to something that must be said. I cannot say the same thing of most conversations between people in the real world.
However, it really depends on the character I'm writing for and how much I understand them. Some characters are really easy to think and write for, while the minds of others are completely inaccessible to me. And it's not even necessarily the characters that I relate to all that much that I have the best understanding of! If there's really a certain trait that I imagine a character having but I can't write for, I leave it to the reader's imagination as much as possible to fill in the details, or I show it through the eyes of another character that I understand more and interpret it through them. |
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LukeVanTramp
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Joined: Jul 04, 2008
Age: 22
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Sling
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Joined: Sep 13, 2008
Age: 21
Posts: 252
Location: Oakfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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I'm writing a philosophical work. Which is odd, considering us Aspies are suppoed to be crap at that.
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sunshower
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I've been writing poetry and short stories for years and I long to write a novel. However, I find my main problem is planning, as I like to think out each bit at a time and after a certain length this rambles too off topic. I'm also a little worried about my characters and their conversations too, as I have trouble seeing the world from other people's perspectives. Description is probably my strong point 
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DinosaurTube
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Joined: Nov 08, 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: Book recommendation |
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In terms of popular fiction there are a number of books worth looking at. I appreciate the desire to be the new Shakespeare, or rather to be hailed as such, but suggest a look at the following;
"Immediate Fiction" Jerry Cleaver
"On Writing" Stephen King
"Writing Popular Fiction" Dean Koontz
The latter may be known to you as talented tale spinners, rather than literary geniuses, but the hard facts of sales and readership speak volumes. (Pun intended.) All have good, concrete advice that spoke to me at various times. Koontz's book is out of print, though, and pricey to obtain.
it may have been covered, but would anyone care to read anything I've done, and is there a mechanism for sharing our work for 'critique' purposes?
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gina-ghettoprincess
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Joined: Nov 09, 2008
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Location: The Town That Time Forgot (UK)
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| I'm 13 and I love writing fiction. Despite been aspie, I love writing about the social side of life. Possibly because writing is a way to fill in the parts of my life and self which are lacking. It isn't as difficult as one might imagine, because I spend so much time sitting around in school against my will having to listen to people "socialising"/being mental, so I notice things about life that others don't. |
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musicislife
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Location: whatever town, usa
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| Claradoon wrote: | | Wanna form a writing group? |
I would join if you made one!!!
I started writing a novel and would like someone to bounce ideas off of. If anyone is interested pm me and I'll send the prologue & 1st chapter. I'd like some tips on dialogue considering I'm crap at writing it  (description is my strong point  ). |
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garyww
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Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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Location: Napa, California
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I would throw Hunter Thompson onto the list and maybe Richard Brautigan (sp?) |
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glider18
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Hello |
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Hi, I just found this message discussion and thought it was interesting. I didn't read through all 10 pages of the messages though. The original post wondered about Aspie authors. Here are the ones I have found through research---and they may all have been noted in later postings:
Emily Dickinson, Hans Christian Anderson, Herman Melville, William Butler Yeats, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Orwell, Patricia Highsmith, etc.
I especially find the character of Bartleby in Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby" to be most interesting. Was Bartleby autistic?
As far as a beatiful story, I love Anderson's "The Snow Queen."
I have no problem with writing stories and poetry---and I have Asperger's. The original post discussed the possibility that we Aspie writers might have difficulty with the social interactions of our characters. But for me, I don't have problems with this---where I do have the problem is in real life when I am in the social situation. Can others relate to this? |
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Maditude
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Joined: Dec 08, 2008
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Location: New Jersey, USA
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I can relate. Many of my characters were not NT though none had Asperger's. One story had a neurotic man fall in love with a psychotic woman. |
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capriwim
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Joined: Dec 03, 2008
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| I have wondered whether Dickens was on the spectrum. Partly because of the intense eye for detail - and his biographies always comment on his great memory for detail and his eccentricity. Also, his characters are portrayed from the outside rather than from the inside. He is portraying them from observation and they are very external, like caricatures. He doesn't go into their inward feelings and their psychology, or make any attempt to explain why they are as they are. |
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carturo222
Polymath wannabe
Joined: Aug 04, 2008
Age: 26
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Location: Colombia
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| You can go around the social interaction problem if you turn that into one of the difficulties of the story. At this moment I'm writing a s-f novel that precisely deals with failed communication and social awkwardness between people of different planets who simply don't get each other's point. Sounds familiar? Use what you have lived, and build a story about it. |
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