Friday Chatter: Open Thread
A slight emergency has come up here (no one is in danger, just a lot of annoying logistical stuff needs to be done very fast) so I’m not going to be able to...
Friday Chatter: Open Thread
A slight emergency has come up here (no one is in danger, just a lot of annoying logistical stuff needs to be done very fast) so I’m not going to be able to...
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Nick Walker
Nick Walker is a queer trans autistic author, aikido teacher, and psychology professor. In her academic life, she is a key contributor to the field of...
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Nick Walker
Nick Walker is a queer trans autistic author, aikido teacher, and psychology professor. In her academic life, she is a key contributor to the field of...
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sunyi Dean
Sunyi Dean is a biracial immigrant and autistic single mom, living the inner-city life in North England with her two young children. When not reading,...
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sunyi Dean
Sunyi Dean is a biracial immigrant and autistic single mom, living the inner-city life in North England with her two young children. When not reading,...
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Alyssa Gonzalez
Today for our very first April interview, we’re talking to Alyssa Gonzalez, an autistic author of short stories. Tell me about a recent work you released. In...
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Alyssa Gonzalez
Today for our very first April interview, we’re talking to Alyssa Gonzalez, an autistic author of short stories. Tell me about a recent work you released. In...
Friday chatter: Careers
This week we finished up the “Autism, Writing, and Craft” series with a look at the choices and strategies available to autistic authors in our careers. If...
Friday chatter: Careers
This week we finished up the “Autism, Writing, and Craft” series with a look at the choices and strategies available to autistic authors in our careers. If...
A MONTH OF AUTISTIC AUTHORS
Hello, Everything Is True followers! I had to wait until the afternoon to post this, lest it be mistaken for an April Fool’s joke, but this is something I’ve...
A MONTH OF AUTISTIC AUTHORS
Hello, Everything Is True followers! I had to wait until the afternoon to post this, lest it be mistaken for an April Fool’s joke, but this is something I’ve...
Autism, Writing, and Craft, Part 3: Choices
This is part 3 of my series on what an autistic writing style looks like. If you missed them, here are the links to Part 1 - on character and agency - and...
Autism, Writing, and Craft, Part 3: Choices
This is part 3 of my series on what an autistic writing style looks like. If you missed them, here are the links to Part 1 - on character and agency - and...
Friday chatter: Communication done well
On Tuesday we talked about autistic styles of emotion and communication and how they can influence an autistic writing style. Today, as we did last week,...
Friday chatter: Communication done well
On Tuesday we talked about autistic styles of emotion and communication and how they can influence an autistic writing style. Today, as we did last week,...
Autism, Writing, and Craft, part 2: Communication
Here's part 2 of my series on autistic writing styles and how they might differ from neurotypical writing styles. Part 1, looking at character and agency, is...
Autism, Writing, and Craft, part 2: Communication
Here's part 2 of my series on autistic writing styles and how they might differ from neurotypical writing styles. Part 1, looking at character and agency, is...
Friday chatter: Character done well
We’ve had some lovely discussion already in the comments to Tuesday’s post, talking about the difficulties of being an autistic author and having a slightly...
Friday chatter: Character done well
We’ve had some lovely discussion already in the comments to Tuesday’s post, talking about the difficulties of being an autistic author and having a slightly...
Autism, Writing, and Craft, part 1: Character
I've been chewing on the idea that characteristic aspects of autistic writing are different from neurotypical writing. I think of it whenever I look at...
Autism, Writing, and Craft, part 1: Character
I've been chewing on the idea that characteristic aspects of autistic writing are different from neurotypical writing. I think of it whenever I look at...
Friday chatter: post-launch
Whew! Tuesday was a fun book launch! In case you missed it, you can read how it went down in this thread of threads, or read all the microfiction from the...
Friday chatter: post-launch
Whew! Tuesday was a fun book launch! In case you missed it, you can read how it went down in this thread of threads, or read all the microfiction from the...
Million-Year Elegies LAUNCH DAY!
Today is the day! Some of you were able to sneakily order paperbacks before the launch, but today is the day when MILLION-YEAR ELEGIES becomes an officially...
Million-Year Elegies LAUNCH DAY!
Today is the day! Some of you were able to sneakily order paperbacks before the launch, but today is the day when MILLION-YEAR ELEGIES becomes an officially...
Friday chatter: Time Travel
Neurodivergent folx are often said to experience time differently than other people (or, in the case of ADHD, for time not to be real at all). This week...
Million-Year Elegies: On Deep Time and Trauma
When we think about dinosaurs, we think about trauma. Maybe not immediately, maybe not consciously, but the association is there. We think about large,...
Friday chatter: monsters
This week we talked about monsters, and dinosaurs as cultural examples of monsters. What are some of your favorite monsters?
Dinosaur (Monster) Culture
I recently read Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)," a foundational work in the study of fictional monsters and their role in human...
Friday chatter: special interests
What’s one way that your special interests have enriched your life recently? What do you wish neurotypicals knew about special interests that they often don’t?
Katie the Ceratosaurus
Like many children, neurotypical and otherwise, I spent a lot of my early childhood obsessed with dinosaurs. I don't remember how it started. It could have...
Friday chatter: Imagination
I’ll always remember a passage in a Tony Attwood book that I read as a teenager, laying out a set of four different autistic coping mechanisms - one of which...
Everything Is True: An Introduction
(If you’re getting this email and you don’t recognize the blog name, don’t panic! You’re probably one of my old Mailchimp subscribers. I’m migrating my...
Autism, writing, and the world through a speculative lens.
Welcome to Everything Is True by me, Ada Hoffmann. Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Author of the Outside series. Sign up now so you don’t miss the...