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MsBehaviour
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Location: Titirangi, New Zealand
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| KBABZ wrote: | | MsBehaviour wrote: | | 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) |
Ooo! Was it in Wellington?? |
The magazine was in Bristol in the UK but I'm based in West Auckland now. I do get down to Welly every couple of months which is always fun. It's a great city, but the weather up here is much better. I need warmth and blue skies after too many cold British winters.
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KBABZ
Third Technician, Chicken Soup Machine Repairman
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Location: Middle Earth. Er, I mean Wellywood. Wait, Wellington.
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| MsBehaviour wrote: | | KBABZ wrote: | | MsBehaviour wrote: | | 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) |
Ooo! Was it in Wellington?? |
The magazine was in Bristol in the UK but I'm based in West Auckland now. I do get down to Welly every couple of months which is always fun. It's a great city, but the weather up here is much better. I need warmth and blue skies after too many cold British winters. |
Ahh. I ask because that's where I am and I'm an aspiring writer.
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MsBehaviour
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| KBABZ wrote: | | Ahh. I ask because that's where I am and I'm an aspiring writer. |
What sort of writing do you want to do?
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KBABZ
Third Technician, Chicken Soup Machine Repairman
Joined: Sep 21, 2006
Age: 18
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Location: Middle Earth. Er, I mean Wellywood. Wait, Wellington.
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| MsBehaviour wrote: | | KBABZ wrote: | | Ahh. I ask because that's where I am and I'm an aspiring writer. |
What sort of writing do you want to do? |
Well I am currently writing a story I've had since I was in Intermediate school (which was about 5 years ago). It's a long story, and has two distinct sections; a Main and a Prologue. There are 3 books for the Prologue and 5 for the Main. The story is a strange mix of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars in terms of style, and I don't like to confine it to one genre. Rather, it has elements of all of these:
=Fantasy (only a little bit)
=Science Fiction
=Apocalyptic
=Comedy
=Romance
Of course it's not all of these all at the same time, rather it is situational. For instance, a character named Booger likes to crack jokes quite a bit (part of his character development is to learn to stop doing it so much, especially the offensive ones). I wrote these little blurbs for each section/book of the story, I can post them if you want.
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ixochiyo_yohuallan
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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. |
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sartresue
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Joined: Dec 19, 2007
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Location: The Castle of Shock and Awe-tism
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: Aspie writers and social interaction |
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| 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. |
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vessel
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Joined: Dec 21, 2007
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Location: Enumclaw, Washington
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:00 am Post subject: Re: Aspie writers and social interaction |
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| sartresue wrote: | | 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. |
For the longest time I posted on forums without caring if anyone responds, it was just a way for me to practice communicating and putting coherent sentences together, and to get something of my chest. Now, I can't get over how weird it feels to see people actually respond. I don't know why, but the fact that I can physically manipulate something around me is strange and hard to phathom, maybe because my AS has been pretty bad lately. |
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alchemist_girl
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yes i do
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ebec11
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
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| KBABZ wrote: |
Funnily enough, the conversations are one of my favourite parts of writing, and the descriptions are my personal demon. Maybe someday we'll be able to credit each other's writing! |
I struggle with conversation (mainly because my family has unnormal conversations, and I have no clue what "normal people" talk like), and LOVE descriptions, though I tend to do too much sometimes 
I'm in a very hard writing program at my school (Which only 25 people get accepted out of 300 students who tried out), and it's a love hate relationship. I love writing, but because I have Aspergers, I struggle to meet the cursed deadlines that I have (I had to write an article with two interviews in two weeks, with all of my other homework, and I wasn't allow ANY extended time. It got into the Globe and Mail website though, so that made me happy) |
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sparklingrocks
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I agree, mind maps are really useful. I used them to plan out academic writing projects when I was in school. I also use them for brainstorming.
My dream job is to work for a magazine. I currently am a writer & editor, and do some web design as well. I have a novel sitting in the in-box at a small press this month. |
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MissPickwickian
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My stories are usually told through the eyes of an aspie, because I don't know how NTs think. Most NT conversations I copy from memory, changing a few things to reflect the situation.
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| If you have a good imagination, yes. I have an excellent imagination, and have thought of writing a story. I used to do a lot of Legend of Zelda role-plays a couple of years ago on an online forum, and I learnt a lot about story telling. One of the guys I role-played with said I was good with the emotional side of things. I've decided, that I will write stories to go with my drawings. |
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Nico
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I write poems and songs mostly about the way I'm feeling and how I interpret life.
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Rainstorm5
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| Nico wrote: | | I write poems and songs mostly about the way I'm feeling and how I interpret life. |
I agree - writing helps purge bad feelings when nothing else will do. If it weren't for writing, god only knows what would've happened to me years ago. I'm terrible at poetry but I still write one every now and then. Writing fiction is the current hobby of choice these days.
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Zmason
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I've been told I write great dialouge. I don't know how I do it, when in a creative fluster, I just have at it, and it comes out that way. Of course, there are grammatical errors and typos, but I think I make some of the less common grammatical errors, so that's what makes the diaogue so special. I don't know. For those of you who don't believe me, I am posting a section of my first chapter of my first book, called The Queen of Hearts (And despite the part I am sending, don't get the idea that its a romance novel, its a secret history fantasy novel about early world war two). In this scene, the main character, Abigial, is fought over by a spirit named Enchantra, and a Germanic Elf named Gabar.
Plus, my life and writing have been compared to another Asperger writer, Jane Austen. Don't qoute me on that, however!
As Abigail lay unable to fight any rapper or murder who might come along, a young man walked down the bombed out street. Beyond lacking any and all sanity, he also had on very formal clothes. He had an unnatural air about him, because the moment he appeared in Abigail’s range of view, she snapped out of her seemingly irrevocable trance. She gave a romantic sigh as she saw him.
“Why hello, my love. What is your name?” Gabar said.
“A... A... Abigail Whipple is my name, kind sir.” She replied
She couldn‘t help but let her eyes drift off into dreamy space. .
He picked up her chin, and caressed the side of her face. He clasped her hand in his, and brought his face close enough to taste the sweetened dinner he must have just come from. Her eyes locked with his, and she noticed nothing else. When he spoke, he spoke softly with a fairy tale dream that could subdue the Queen Mum herself.
“Come away with me. Leave this world behind, and come to a place where raspberries grow long on the vine, and we can live in peace.”
Abigail could feel things she never knew existed. Like, the fact she was a woman, not a girl, She felt his face and hands and arms.
“Your real!” she said.
“But of course I am.”
In the most beautiful auburn hair you could imagine, he had a thin golden foil crown with a pink silken veil.
“Is that real gold?”
“Yes, and you will be adorned with riches beyond your wildest dreams. Rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and jewels of incomparable beauty even to this world.”
“What do you mean, ‘this world’?”
“I come from a land far away; a land of everlasting peace and a land with beings with voices so beautiful it would bring a tear to the eye of Hitler himself. It is called the Otherworld.” Gabar undulated. .
Abigail had heard of the Otherworld through her aunt. From her Aunt’s tales, she envisioned the Otherworld as a most wonderful land with all the desires one could have could come to fruition, for a lifetime.
“Will you bless me with your company, oh dear lovely lady?” He whispered.
“Oh, my dear, I want to...”
“Stop!” A woman’s voice shouted.
A woman in Victorian dress (she recognized it by a picture in her mother’s room), with a petticoat, a skirt, a bustle, a corset, and everything proper, even a bonnet and a shawl, stood behind them. Her cat went straight for her. For the first time since Gabar arrived, she noticed other things, like her aunt, dead and buried within the stack of bricks that Gabar and her stood on.
“She is coming with me.” Gabar said.
“Oh, I don’t think so. Abigail, you must not go with him!” Enchantra said.
“What is wrong with him? I know this man, and he would never harm me.” Abigail said, staring back into the lipid pools of purple that hung in Gabar’s alive eyes. “He’s a kind...”
“...deceitful man! In fact, he’s not a man. He’s an elf.”
“An elf? I never knew such things existed.”
“Yes, my love, I am an elf, and with the magic entrusted in me, I can make you queen of your own empire, with all the riches...”
He placed his hand around her waist and one of the shoulders on her nightgown fell.
“...and more that comes with being a Goddess.”
Abigail recoiled slightly Not because he didn’t like what he had in mind. She stared into those eyes again.
“Abigail! Don’t do it! He’ll do as he promises, but the world will not survive!” the lady said. “The armies of darkness will march over the face of the earth! Stand for your Queen, your country, and for what your parents died for! For the sake of the Lady and Lord... er... your parents, do not let this man tempt you!”
“Let the armies of darkness march. You and I will be totally separate from the chaos that envelopes this world.” Gabar said.
Abigail remembered what her aunt told her.
You can always tell the alive from a spirit because the spirit has no pulse
Abigail grabbed the wrist of the elf. A strong pulse coursed blood through his veins. She got up, and walking very gently over, took the other woman’s hand. She had warmth, but no throbbing in her wrist.
“You are a spirit!” Abigail said.
“Yes. I am the spirit of Enchantra.” the lady said.
“That merely proves that what she says can not be trusted.” the elf said.
“Neither can the words of the alive always be trusted!” Enchantra commanded.
“Abigail, demons are trying to fool you with apparitions. Please, come with me. It will be safer, and much more pleasant.” the elf said.
“Abigail, I can not argue with you on that count. You may live more content with him. You must let your heart guide you as to who is to trust.” Enchantra said.
“My heart is broken! I can not make such decisions!” Abigail wailed.
“Come with me, then. I will heal your heart, and make you a Goddess to be adored by all!” the elf begged in a voice oh so sweet.
Abigail had to think fast. She did the syllogisms almost as fast as a mathematician using a slide rule, as these beleaguered words came out.
“Enchantra, are you a demon?”
“Absolutely not.”
“What is your name?” Abigail asked, pointing at the elf.
“My name is Gabar.”
“Are you a demon?”
“I offer you the riches of the ages! Let us go!”
“I’ll take that as a no. Enchantra, what would Gabar say if I asked him if you where a demon?”
“He’d say I was in a heart beat!”
“And Gabar, what would you say if I asked you if Enchantra was a demon.”
“She would say I wasn’t.”
“Good. Now, Enchantra, will my soul stay in this world, even if I go to the Otherworld, and torment others, be tormented, and possibly bring me illness Gabar can not cure.”
“My dear, it is the unfortunate truth.”
“And Gabar, I put the same question to you, would my soul stay here, and allow me to only enjoy in the carnal pleasures you offer, which I must say I find a most tempting offer.”
“It will not. I will assure you of that.”
Her cat gave a pitiful meow at the feet of Enchantra, confirming Abigail’s feelings.
“I can not go with you, Gabar. My spirit will stay in this world, and if the armies of darkness march across it, I too will suffer, despite my pleasure. I may grow sick, or I may cause dismay in your world. Therefore I can not leave.” Abigail said, completing the logic puzzle in her head as she spoke.
“That’s the English woman I’ve come to know!” Enchantra said.
“You will not prevail! You are a mere spirit!” the elf howled, flashing those loving eyes one more time, making Abigail nearly faint with lovesick emotion.
“Abigail! Quickly! Take a brick and throw it towards Germany!” Enchantra said.
“What good will that do?” Abigail asked, still half under the spell.
The elf dug around for something in his suit coat, and Abigail scared herself into submission. She picked up the nearest brick, and hurled it at Germany with all her force. The elf, by now, had taken out an atomizer, and sprayed a small amount of something into the air when he screamed, and was thrown into oblivion |
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