Thread:Joanne Maniago/@comment-29570797-20160821000649/@comment-29570797-20161001043538

Koishi-Komeiji wrote: Autism is more like a natural boost for people who write in romance, drama, and vaudeville genres. Expressive poetry is also an option for the autistic. This is because autistic people are more capable of expressing their emotions—believable even—than normal people who tend to exaggerate feelings. This is an advantage, not a disorder.

There is no method to connect the middle with the beginning and the end. The backstory should've been more of a summarization of events, so you can get on with the emotional part without fear of losing interest.

If you feel it's better (and I mean if you feel it's better), combine Michelle's thoughts with the narration. Have people straight-on read the text. Readers are able to interpret (remember, they have brains too) the difference between thoughts and description if a visible, either abstract or concrete, is there. Turn yourself into the reader after writing, and see if you can infer anything.

What's happening right now in the story is usually more important than what has happened before. But the latter is important if it plays a key role, which means if a reader zips it through, then it's the reader's fault for not understanding. If the past is your topic in a specific scenario, then focus on the past. If the present is your topic in a specific scenario, then focus on the present. Same goes for the future.

If you think you aren't good at pantsing-writing, then go ahead and become a plotter. Draft out all your ideas and key events in a scenario before writing. This is to ensure you don't go off-topic. Besides, you can always choose to run out of your plan should you have new ideas that you think would work. Gotcha. But I have been thinking of this idea:

I should put my Michelle story up for a while and what you have said soak in, along with a new re-write of the plot and hopefully with better organization. Meanwhile, I will take some of what you have said before and put into this new project I want to work on: It's called Tough Love and it's going to be about  Elliot beginning to date Chieko, but Elliot's family disapproves of the relationship.

I'll be sure to let you when Tough Love is completed so I can have you beta read it. But I think putting Michelle's story aside would be best since I have no creativity and plot line at the moment, and working on other projects could give me the creativity I need. Would that be a recommendation for me to do?