Author Archive: tyunglebower
The Autistic Writer: Passage of Time
It’s human nature to feel nostalgic on occasion. Just about everyone misses a certain era in their lives. A whimsical longing to return to a former time, place and situation works falls upon every person from time to time. To well-adjusted people, the desire is temporary; they know we can exist only in the present, …
The Autistic Writer: Choosing Point of View
Perspective is crucial to understanding life on the Autism Spectrum. Because Autistic people are not a monolith, it can’t be assumed every Autistic person’s perspective on daily life is identical. It isn’t. The concept of perspective, however, the nature of how any given person with ASD perceives and experiences the world around them is key. …
The Autistic Writer: Show Don’t Tell?
If you have even rudimentary knowledge of the Autism Spectrum and the basics of writing, what follows should be no revelation to you. In fact, it borders on obvious, though I don’t like to assume. So for the sake of completeness allow me to say that Autistic people tend to live a much more internal …
The Autistic Writer: Number of Characters
I recently DNFed (“did not finish) a popular epic length novel. There were multiple reasons I gave up on it. One was the story had far too many characters. There were about 20 named characters, and four or five main characters each with their own narrative. There was even a character chart at the front …
The Autistic Writer: Character-Driven vs Plot-Driven Fiction
A few weeks ago in this series I posted about the character creation process for the Autistic writer in me. You may want to read or reread that before going any further here, as this is about how much weight is assigned to characters as a component within a given narrative. A common, (though I …
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