Ask the Author: Skip Rhudy
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Skip Rhudy
Dune or Foundation and Empire.
I'd take a good, hard look, and try to hitch as many rides to far flung worlds as possible. Talk to as many people as possible. Try every alien cuisine and cocktail I could. And definitely check out the music scene.
I'd take a good, hard look, and try to hitch as many rides to far flung worlds as possible. Talk to as many people as possible. Try every alien cuisine and cocktail I could. And definitely check out the music scene.
Skip Rhudy
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar
and some new poetry of all kinds!
The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar
and some new poetry of all kinds!
Skip Rhudy
These days words seem to come suddenly and with no explanation. Sometimes it's a kind of delicate lyricism that pulses through my head so magically that I don't even want to move because I fear that moving or trying to write the words down would cause the stream of words to disappear. So I let them come and go because the streaming is so enjoyable and because later on there will be more words to replace them anyway. There are other times that I can feel something coming on and I can get ready for it, get a computer or a pen or even make a recording as the stream of words come out of me. When that happens it is a great thing and much better than when I was younger when I would try to make stories happen but they didn't want to come out on their own. So I would force the words. But forced words suck. It took me a long time to understand that when that was happening it was much better to just go do something else and wait for the words to come on their own. The words would either come someday -- maybe next week or next month or maybe next year -- or maybe they would never come at all.
I did wait a long time and I don't know when it started but at some point the words started coming again and I could feel that they were not forced anymore but came out naturally and were true. That is a mystery and it is one of the few mysteries I don't want to solve.
I did wait a long time and I don't know when it started but at some point the words started coming again and I could feel that they were not forced anymore but came out naturally and were true. That is a mystery and it is one of the few mysteries I don't want to solve.
Skip Rhudy
One Punk Summer was inspired by the tremendous pre-SXSW music scene that I lived through in Austin and Central Texas during the height of the punk music era during the early to mid-eighties. The punk subculture at that time helped elevate the music scene in Austin from a kind of loud-and-proud local vibrancy to actual international renown.
I was very interested in playing with language and having characters speak as people actually spoke, act like people actually act, and having the very language of the narrative reflect the state of mind of the characters whether they were bored, excited, partying, playing music -- or tripping on acid.
I was very interested in playing with language and having characters speak as people actually spoke, act like people actually act, and having the very language of the narrative reflect the state of mind of the characters whether they were bored, excited, partying, playing music -- or tripping on acid.
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