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The Donor has been updated whith Chapter Three. I think I can keep this pace and also finish Afterwar.
I'm pretty happy with it: I've been improving it as I transcribe it, mostly by making it shorter -- dropping out bits of description and exposition that seemed necessary when I wrote it but seem egregious now. I guess I've become a sparer writer. Another thing I've been dropping out is quotidian details -- not all of them, but it's clear to me now that for the effect I was working for -- developing the milieu of San Francisco in 1985, when the bathhouses were about to be closed, and getting the flavor of that time and place -- I don't need as many details as I originally put in. THe sparer description serves the purpose better, I think.
As always, I'm hoping people will check the links, the wrap, the general functionality and accuracy of the transcription, especially if they're using other browsers than I (IE and don't come all snobby on me, I've tried the others and I find the way they organize their features to be irritating: it's a matter of taste). I know there are a couple typoes in the first two chapters, I'll be fixing them soon.
I'm pretty happy with it: I've been improving it as I transcribe it, mostly by making it shorter -- dropping out bits of description and exposition that seemed necessary when I wrote it but seem egregious now. I guess I've become a sparer writer. Another thing I've been dropping out is quotidian details -- not all of them, but it's clear to me now that for the effect I was working for -- developing the milieu of San Francisco in 1985, when the bathhouses were about to be closed, and getting the flavor of that time and place -- I don't need as many details as I originally put in. THe sparer description serves the purpose better, I think.
As always, I'm hoping people will check the links, the wrap, the general functionality and accuracy of the transcription, especially if they're using other browsers than I (IE and don't come all snobby on me, I've tried the others and I find the way they organize their features to be irritating: it's a matter of taste). I know there are a couple typoes in the first two chapters, I'll be fixing them soon.
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