BIO

 

 

In the beginning, C.A.Rudolph created stories on a 128k Apple compatible personal computer.  On the second day, he--

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Ok, that sounds plagiarized.  Let's try this again.

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Truth is, I've always been a storyteller.  It's a gift I graciously inherited from my mother...one that she received from her own mother.  I know this to be true, not only because I know my mom would never lie to me, but because I was present many times when my grandmother would tell my brother and me stories when we'd spend the night at her house.  We'd simply ask her to tell us a story before bed, and she was always able to invent one on cue.  It was, and still is, and impressive trait.

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While I'm no stranger to telling stories verbally, my gift has always been a little different...being that, it exists in the written word, mostly in the form of prose.  The first time I sat down and began writing was when I was first inspired to write--when I was 15 years old, just after the Los Angeles riots that followed the Rodney King verdict.  My story was about a group of vigilante crime fighters, known as The Eradicators.  I've always been a comic book fan, and I felt my chosen genre therefore, was superhero fiction.  I didn't write the story in prose, however, because I'd never been formally taught how to do that.  So, it was written more or less, as a screenplay, including dialog that was written using colons.  :)  Very, very simpleton.  But hey, I was 15.  The story was saved periodically onto a floppy disk (5 1/4", not 3.5"), and ended up being around a dozen chapters before I started driving and discovering the opposite sex.  My father subsequently sold the computer, as well as the disks, and the entire story was lost.  I did however, somehow manage to find some of it printed on dot-matrix paper several years later.  I still have the pages.

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During my junior year of high school, I was blessed to have an english teacher who pressed each and every one of us to become excellent communicators.  

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