Week 11, 3/18

Most of what I did on the book this week has been on the off-site fiction part. I’m waiting for Mei’s interview transcript to come back with her feedback; collected some more of Vijay and Rudresh’s work; Michael Dessen’s dissertation came in; processed a couple of Wu Man’s CDs, ordered a few more through her website.

This project is getting me more current with things like iTunes, Rhapsody, and eMusic—online subscription services where I’m getting downloads for pennies. MySpace & YouTube will probably end up being sources...but my natural impulse at this point in life and work is to shy away from rather than stride boldly into such terrain, for various reasons.

The work is settled into a healthy balance between the fiction and nonfiction; an hour or so a day on listening to recordings, transcribing, processing texts, writing, each thing...that works out to be roughly a good day’s work, and will start finally producing at the clip I desire.

The only thing then is to get interviews up and out and see if they generate any interactivity on site.