Prologue B: Moscow

The second part of the prologue is online at http://www.WebFeats.com/Transition/b.html.

Originally, there was just one prologue with two sections. As it happens, I used to write long chapters composed of lots of small sections. But at some point I began to like bite-sized chapters, I think they're much easier for readers to digest. In this approach I was heavily influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, whose chapters progressed from "normal" length in his early novels to mere snippets in his later works.

I know that many writers like all (or, at least, most) of their chapters to be of approximately the same length, perhaps to set a regular pace for the reader. But I find myself leaning toward irregular-length chapters that break when the "scene" changes, which means that I end up with a lot of very small chapters. Maybe it's because I suspect that many readers have as short an attention span as I do...