Published on 12, July, 2020
Do you generally read or write fiction and/or fanfiction?
I spend my life reading and writing stories of various types, and I wondered if this is normal for autistic people. I thought we were supposed to have very limited imaginations and interests and that was how we got diagnosed. But my imagination is vast, I tend to live in a fantasy world rather than the real world because it is nicer tbh!
What is your imagination like?
Interesting thread! I am also a fan of the fantasy genre.
Authors are often classified as either plotter or pantsers. I have the feeling that writers in the autistic spectrum tend to be prevalently plotters.
Funny that. I used to be a plotter but went too far with 3 act structures, midpoints, rising and falling tension etc. It meant my stories were too formulaic so I turned into a pantser.
I don't if I could change that. I just write amatorially, but I definitely need to outline a lot. I find that writing without creating a structure first is too frustrating for me,
Thank you, I found them!
It seems that you are in the right line of work if you like to read fantasy.
Happy to help. I work as an editor for a publisher so I am in that world.
I think those authors are called Stephen James and she is called Jordan Rosenfeld.