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When I was going through years and years of hell with my stalled career and all my experiences related to job hunting and crappy jobs, I wrote a book about my experiences and added some information I obtained from newspaper articles with respect to the bad economy (this was in the 90's). I never could get it published (and in retrospect it certainly needed finesse) but the experience was therapeutic. I bound the book in plastic binding and keep it as a reminder of what I went through and how far I have come.

You know, I think when I get to the point of it being completed, I think that'll be the important thing for me. That I committed to doing it, and then it would be done.

well...I'd read it. You seem interesting. You just have to find your style. It's OK to copy someone else - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

I suggest Augusten Burroughs. Very funny, somewhat cynical, odd upbringing (to say the least), has a brother with aspbergers and there are some other things that you share with him as well.

 

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Good luck!

 

ps; write every day, without fail, and you will become great!

Funny. I read Running with Scissors a long time ago and I adore it. Also, I just finished his older brother's (his older brother is an aspie too) book called Look Me in the Eye. It was a revelation to me. I could read that book over and over and point out where I totally see myself.

If I had to guess, my book will fall somewhere between the warm-and-hopeful-despite-the-situation tone of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex*, the complex construction of a James Joyce/Haruki Murakami and the aspie-to-neurotypical translation of Look Me in the Eye / Born on a Blue Day.

I really want it to be true to who I am, what I know I can do and really be great.

So, I've had a lot of ideas and false starts over the years, but with all the things I've been through and going through right now, I think the time is finally right to write a novel based on my life to date.

I think the hardest part for me will be to find my own voice, because I read so much and I have such profound respect for the authors I love. I also worry that my voice won't make sense to anyone because of my asperger's, but that's one of the main reasons I want to write this novel in the first place.

Nice catch-22 there, huh?

I don't know that there's a point to this, but I just sort of wanted to put that out there.

Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison.

I just started Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn triology. I looooooove his Commonwealth stuff, but this is a bit darker, edgier. It was harder to get into at first but I am totally loving the story now.

I'm re-reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I love it.