Category Archives: Miscellany
The Central Question of The Rubble and the Shakespeare
What’s the single question at the heart of my upcoming novel The Rubble and the Shakespeare? Stories often have multiple underlying questions, or themes. My novel is no exception, but one question is central—central in that not only does the novel itself and its characters consider it, but as the author so do I. The …
The Autistic Writer: A Wrap Up
All throughout this year I’ve posted about the perspectives of a writer that is also Autistic. Several take aways present themselves for those who have read more than a few of these posts. Mostly certainly, the fact that Autism manifests itself differently for each person on the Spectrum. I may struggle at something another person …
The Autistic Writer: Rejection
Rejection. It takes on several forms and I hate all of them. Most writers hate all of them. Hell, most people hate all of them. Being Autistic nonetheless adds a dimension to the experience of rejection, as it does to so many other common components of daily life. It’s called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and unlike …
The Autistic Writer: Loneliness
The literal process of writing is a solitary act. Even if you are collaborating on something with another author, or battling it out in the proverbial “writers room,” ultimately, even if only for a few minutes, you write alone. (Even with others present.) The very nature of Autism is the tendency to turn inward. (It’s …
The Autistic Writer: Interviews
Taken as a whole, my writing usually falls under either fiction, or creative non-fiction. (personal essays or books about writing itself.) As a sometime freelance contributor, to a regional magazine in particular, about a quarter of what I work on requires interviewing others.As you might imagine, my Autism plays a larger role in this than …
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