Translation :-D, NaNoWriMo :-(
This has been one hell of a week - on Wednesday and Thursday I was up until 2am working on 2 translations for one bank. One was even fun with statistics and all. The second one was only 1.5 pages long but I worked on it forever and had to admit defeat in the end - it almost had me in tears. This head of one department wrote it in English but it was obvious it was not his language. He kept using elevated language for ordinary things so much that I had no idea what the hell he was talking about. A colleague finally helped me with some things - it was a free-er translation than we are allowed but the guy was so trying to impress that he had me baffled. Anyhoo, I worked my ass off this past week.
Ok, I turned into wrong direction here - what I wanted to say was that my translation of Cinderella is out and it looks gorgeous!!! Also, I was given my first adult book for translation - Noam Chomsky, no less! I am so excited about this one!!!
However, this means that I will definitely fail at NaNoWriMo since I work from 7am - 4pm (and will have to translate Chomsky in intervals when there's no work for me during the day). But it will not be enough so I will have to work on Chomsky after work as well. Meaning, my time for my NaNoWriMo novel is practically non-existent :-(
But I am not losing hope. I wrote an outline, and am thinking about the characters and all - I just won't be able to put in 1666 words per day. It would be crazy to expect so with my full schedule with driving lessons as well.
It is a shame since I met some very nice people on the NaNoWriMo forum. I actually feel yucky for not being able to participate in full this year. I feel like I've given up already when it was not my intention. And this is my first time there. I was actually looking forward to seeing if I could pull it off.
Well, you win some, you lose some.
But hell, I was really hoping to just let go when it comes to writing.
Ok, I turned into wrong direction here - what I wanted to say was that my translation of Cinderella is out and it looks gorgeous!!! Also, I was given my first adult book for translation - Noam Chomsky, no less! I am so excited about this one!!!
However, this means that I will definitely fail at NaNoWriMo since I work from 7am - 4pm (and will have to translate Chomsky in intervals when there's no work for me during the day). But it will not be enough so I will have to work on Chomsky after work as well. Meaning, my time for my NaNoWriMo novel is practically non-existent :-(
But I am not losing hope. I wrote an outline, and am thinking about the characters and all - I just won't be able to put in 1666 words per day. It would be crazy to expect so with my full schedule with driving lessons as well.
It is a shame since I met some very nice people on the NaNoWriMo forum. I actually feel yucky for not being able to participate in full this year. I feel like I've given up already when it was not my intention. And this is my first time there. I was actually looking forward to seeing if I could pull it off.
Well, you win some, you lose some.
But hell, I was really hoping to just let go when it comes to writing.