Subject: Okay, I cancel Beta request...
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Posted on: 2015-08-17 18:05:00 UTC
I don't want to strain any of you guys with this much work. If anyone of you wants to read it just for fun - let me know!
Subject: Okay, I cancel Beta request...
Author:
Posted on: 2015-08-17 18:05:00 UTC
I don't want to strain any of you guys with this much work. If anyone of you wants to read it just for fun - let me know!
As some of you may or may not know, my dream is to become an interpreter in both writing and speech. I have this thing, where I search for English novels and try to translate them. But... why don't I try the other way around? Take some of Poland's best books and try to translate them to English? The only problem is – I need readers! Recipients! Audience!
My first big Polish project would be The Soul Thief, Book One from 'Dora Wolf Hexalogy'.
The shortest description I could think about it would be: Think The Dresden Files, with a genderbent main character.
Now, would there be anyone willing to Beta-slash-read my work just like that? Also, don't worry about the copyrights; I'm friends with the author, she allowed me to use her book for a non-profit fan translation.
...but not to edit the whole thing, no. Quite honestly--even if you were paying me to edit the whole thing, I simply wouldn't have the time. I'm a full-time university student pursuing two degrees, doing a placement one day a week for which I'll have to make lesson plans this year, and I may end up with a Sunday job again, too. I'll (hopefully...) have free time this year, but definitely not enough to edit or comment on an entire book.
However, translation is very interesting to me (although I don't know any Polish at all, unless any of it is the same as the tiny bits of Russian that I know/you count whatever Polish words made it into Yiddish, which I can't actually identify since I don't speak Polish--wait, where was I going with this? Oh, right). Essentially, I wouldn't be at all able to tell you if your translation is accurate, but I can let you know if a short piece is understandable or if I see any really glaring errors. But yeah, there's no way I could beta the entire thing.
~DF
I'm asking if you guys would read it, just for the sake of reading it! No beta-ing, just for pleasure!
In that case... maybe pieces of it. I don't even know if I'd like the book, you see.
~DF
I don't want to strain any of you guys with this much work. If anyone of you wants to read it just for fun - let me know!
Not beta, but I don't mind taking a peek every once in a while and being peanut gallery. I'm a curious person, me.
Sorry, but although I'm willing to beta a mission, I don't think I could do a full novel without some kind of financial compensation.