/lit/ - Literature

>>21039487
As someone who is slightly autistic, looking up writers who also are on the spectrum has shed a light to one of the most depressing aspects of this disease. Something i hope to never seep in to my writing or i'll just fucking kill myself.

The "aspect" that i'm talking about is fictional (fantasy) books written by autists with autistic main characters. Like, that is the last thing i hope to do. There are too many of them. I want to write a good story, and not put the disease at the front of it like a pathetic looser starving for attention and acceptence. I want to write something relatable. And not just
>Wow look at me i'm so special and unique and this story is about a retard who saves the world in his/her own quirky way
FUCK THAT

>>20673805
Yeah. Just read this one and it was a blast. Fast pace in storytelling and actually described large battles. (Unlike Dragon Lance where every larger battle seems to start with the dwarf pov getting knocked out by a halfling.)

Loved it. Def. gonna read more of his work.

>>20639005
Every book written (, edited) and published should theoretically make the writing better. So maybe their writing and narration is just that much better after going through the process 4 times before? That's my understanding at least.

And yeah, i'm aware that this isn't always the case. And some later books might also be shittier than the ones before it.

Soo i read the 3 Dragonlance Chronicles books. And after that i jumped straight into The King Beyond The Gate by David Gemmell, with basically zero info about the books or the writer. (Legend was on one of the recommended lists but it was unavailable, so i'll have to get to that later)


... And holy shit was it good. It felt so fresh, and the story just rolled forward with a nice pace until the finish. So nice to actually read about big battles without them just being outright skipped (EVERY TIME), and no wasting of multiple pages or chapters on another village or city with something "eerily wrong with it". Definitely gonna read more of this mans books, probably gonna get some for myself too, instead of just borrowing them from the local library.

My only gripe is that at a few points i would have liked more descriptions on how a few characters looked, but even that was something that didn't bother me much later. The storytelling just worked.

And yeah, i gotta ask. Any other fantasy writers with the same type of "simplistic" style of storytelling? I've read Conan a bit but it has exactly a bit too much of those "mystic places" as locations for my liking.