Category Archives: Writing
The Autistic Writer: Deadlines
Many writers have a love/hate relationship with deadlines. That is to say, writers love to hate them. Jokes aside, deadlines are a crucial pillar of a writing career. Mostly for the benefit of the publication for which the writer is working, but for the writer as well, though many may be loath to admit it. …
The Autistic Writer: The Spectrum In My Fiction
It could be said that everything I ever write is to some degree influenced by Autism Spectrum Disorder. ASD is after all fully a part of who I am, and my writing comes from me. Still, and I’ve mentioned this previously in this series, I’m not making a statement about or on behalf of Autism …
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 …
The Autistic Writer: Music (Not) To My Ears
I’ve noticed a common perception out there that music and writing almost always go hand and hand. Interviews with authors, author forums and other such platforms usually come round to the question of what soundtrack any given writer plays while working. Don’t ask me to cite a study on this, but it seems the more …
The Autistic Writer: Work Spaces
I published a book a few years ago called 14 Fantastic Frederick County Writing Spots. In that free non-fiction guide, as you can probably guess, I highlighted and described 14 different, non-traditional places in my home county in Maryland where one could work on one’s writing. While I don’t visit each of these myself on …
