transrealism 101
transreal (def.): science fiction based on one's immediate life and daily perceptions - Rudy RuckerRudy Rucker's home page
Rucker's Inital Suggestions for Beginning Writers
Fiction that Bleeds Truth - a short essay on transrealism by Jon Lebkowsky
two basic tenets of transrealism are:
.write about immediate perceptions in a fantastic way.
.base your characters on real people including, most importantly, yourself.
Rudy Rucker on Transrealism:
"I want to have my lifes work on a CD with an access system that can call up any part of it, key on it with a cursor, and then go into my journals, see what was happening, or get into my essays, see what I was doing then or find other stories that used a particular item and have it all be totally seamless. See, that's what I call transrealism. If there is a category, Transrealism came first. That's what I'm into but cyberpunk is what stuck. I'm trying to merge my life with my fiction and essentially create a word model of consciousness."
Rudy Rucker email interview (Salon)