Floyd Skloot's Interview

Tuesday in class we went to see Floyd Skloot get interviewed by two English majors from the University of Memphis. I was excited to see this interview since I had heard Skloot read and speak the night before. The whole interview was really interesting. One guy interviewing Skloot asked most questions pertaining to Skloot’s mix of writing. Skloot writes in many different genres including poems, memoirs, and essays. The guy asked Skloot if he wrote each of the different genres differently since he had the brain damage. Skloot explained that he had to do everything the same. He has to take bits and pieces as they come to him and then put them together later on. The only difference was that due to the length of novels and essays they did take longer than poems. He said before he caught the virus that he was very structured in his writing and would know exactly where he was going before he began. Skloot said he thinks he has grown in his writing because he now has to take time to write his work when before he was mostly about getting his work published. It was really neat to hear how he worked through his illness and gained his art back. He defiantly has a strong will and it showed through his interview.