Would you trust these people with your proofreading?
On the receipt of a manuscript, we will make do to immediately send to you, the Manuscript Identification Number and the Manuscript Processing Fee, taking cognizance of the pages of the received manuscript, within one hour.
Just received at the academic email address.
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And, Dept of Panicking, sent my presentation powerpoint as requested to the admin person for tomorrow's event, and get an ooo message. I'm hoping this is simply because they are so inundated by last-minute logisticals that they are not responding to anything under Code Red.
(I suppose my additional query as to whether I actually need to turn up That Early when the opening - sponsored - seminar is entirely irrelevant to me, does not count as Code Red.)
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There's an interesting piece here by Kathryn Hughes on the Trollope/Rowling hoohah (actually, is it just Trollope, raging away, with JKR maintaining a dignified silence, on that matter at least?).
Is it, though, actually true that I, and most authors I know, find the process of writing a kind of penal servitude with extra hard labour. Getting a thousand rough words down a day is akin to descending into a pitch-black coal mine and spending six hours chipping away with eyebrow tweezers, lit only by your iPhone which you are obliged to operate with your teeth. Consequently, words are precious things.
Okay, on the 'being paid' part of it, my own experiences have largely been in the academic field, where you do not expect to get paid megabucks, if at all, and dodgy enterprises spend their days spamming you with Open Access publication opportunities, which, when you scroll down, involves fronting up a considerable sum. Getting paid for stuff is often for the peripheral things; also yay for ALCS which collates all one's micro-earnings from copying etc.
I was also (and to some extent am still) in the position of being an information professional working for a Major Institution in Subject Field in which being helpful to enquirers was part of the deal, something I suspect has been rather abused by meedja types over the years. In which being A Helpful Person was part of what I was being paid for.
On the 'churning out words thing', I have been doing this as a side activity for decades now, after the days' work and in other spare time. Someone whose main income stream it was would have a different attitude. Being an archivist by day allowed me to be an academic dilettante, frolicking in the research fields, by night, not even constrained by some university department's research agenda.
And I was thinking, as one does, that I enjoyed being an archivist, but, you know, I feel no desire to go and offer my voluntary services to some organisation or individual with archives in need of attention. I might consider a temporary consultancy, but there are people out there who make their living doing archive and records management consultancy, so unless I felt I had something very particular in the way of specialised knowledge to bring to the task, would probably point enquirers in that direction.
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Just received at the academic email address.
***
And, Dept of Panicking, sent my presentation powerpoint as requested to the admin person for tomorrow's event, and get an ooo message. I'm hoping this is simply because they are so inundated by last-minute logisticals that they are not responding to anything under Code Red.
(I suppose my additional query as to whether I actually need to turn up That Early when the opening - sponsored - seminar is entirely irrelevant to me, does not count as Code Red.)
***
There's an interesting piece here by Kathryn Hughes on the Trollope/Rowling hoohah (actually, is it just Trollope, raging away, with JKR maintaining a dignified silence, on that matter at least?).
Is it, though, actually true that I, and most authors I know, find the process of writing a kind of penal servitude with extra hard labour. Getting a thousand rough words down a day is akin to descending into a pitch-black coal mine and spending six hours chipping away with eyebrow tweezers, lit only by your iPhone which you are obliged to operate with your teeth. Consequently, words are precious things.
Okay, on the 'being paid' part of it, my own experiences have largely been in the academic field, where you do not expect to get paid megabucks, if at all, and dodgy enterprises spend their days spamming you with Open Access publication opportunities, which, when you scroll down, involves fronting up a considerable sum. Getting paid for stuff is often for the peripheral things; also yay for ALCS which collates all one's micro-earnings from copying etc.
I was also (and to some extent am still) in the position of being an information professional working for a Major Institution in Subject Field in which being helpful to enquirers was part of the deal, something I suspect has been rather abused by meedja types over the years. In which being A Helpful Person was part of what I was being paid for.
On the 'churning out words thing', I have been doing this as a side activity for decades now, after the days' work and in other spare time. Someone whose main income stream it was would have a different attitude. Being an archivist by day allowed me to be an academic dilettante, frolicking in the research fields, by night, not even constrained by some university department's research agenda.
And I was thinking, as one does, that I enjoyed being an archivist, but, you know, I feel no desire to go and offer my voluntary services to some organisation or individual with archives in need of attention. I might consider a temporary consultancy, but there are people out there who make their living doing archive and records management consultancy, so unless I felt I had something very particular in the way of specialised knowledge to bring to the task, would probably point enquirers in that direction.
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comments.