>>I want to fit in the sounds that an autistic person makes. Some of them tend to make odd noises.<<
I would love this! I am a hobby-linguist, so I'm really into sounds that people or other living creatures make.
>> The problem is that most of these noises are really complicated and harder to understand. <<
Okay, there are resources for describing sounds. How-to articles on onamatopoeia for writers can be good but it's hard to find the best ones.
A decent book on basic linguistics -- or you might have something like this from your speech therapy -- will describe all the human phonemes along with how the lips and tongue move to make sounds. This is really handy if you are dealing with sounds outside the English language.
Another excellent resource is zoology guidebooks for birds or animals that describe their calls. You can really see how to write out unusual sounds with English letters. I recommend the Cornell birding website: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=1189 It has awesome descriptions of birds, their sounds, and sound files so you can hear them. That's not a random example; I can whistle well enough to get a cardinal to answer me, and I've written bird calls into my fiction where necessary.
>>I think half the problem is that I get distracted by routine and emotional reasons. It's not that I'm distracted for the sake of ADHD.<<
Not much to do about that but practice getting things done. Sometimes it helps to set a reward for finishing a project. But everyone has some part of a project they suck at -- it's just starting for some people, and finishing for others, and so forth. There actually is an advantage to starting more things than you finish: anything that holds your interest to the end is far more likely to keep a reader or an editor hooked too.
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Date: 2012-09-30 08:30 am (UTC)From:I would love this! I am a hobby-linguist, so I'm really into sounds that people or other living creatures make.
>> The problem is that most of these noises are really complicated and harder to understand. <<
Okay, there are resources for describing sounds. How-to articles on onamatopoeia for writers can be good but it's hard to find the best ones.
A decent book on basic linguistics -- or you might have something like this from your speech therapy -- will describe all the human phonemes along with how the lips and tongue move to make sounds. This is really handy if you are dealing with sounds outside the English language.
Another excellent resource is zoology guidebooks for birds or animals that describe their calls. You can really see how to write out unusual sounds with English letters. I recommend the Cornell birding website:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=1189
It has awesome descriptions of birds, their sounds, and sound files so you can hear them. That's not a random example; I can whistle well enough to get a cardinal to answer me, and I've written bird calls into my fiction where necessary.
>>I think half the problem is that I get distracted by routine and emotional reasons. It's not that I'm distracted for the sake of ADHD.<<
Not much to do about that but practice getting things done. Sometimes it helps to set a reward for finishing a project. But everyone has some part of a project they suck at -- it's just starting for some people, and finishing for others, and so forth. There actually is an advantage to starting more things than you finish: anything that holds your interest to the end is far more likely to keep a reader or an editor hooked too.