Haha, just got an email from the publisher. The book I translated is getting good reviews AND it's selling pretty well, too. Which means they want me to translate another book! Yay!
It's going to be the same author, but they are basically letting me choose which book to translate. There are two serious candidates and I am strongly leaning to one ( Read more... )

   reading Buddha's teachings while being on the toilet? Probably yes. But it was the first thing I grabbed on my way there (yes, I always read at that place :) and now I feel enlightened and slightly inappropirate at the same time.
    Also, I think I might have a "writer's elbow" or whatever, my right (writing) hand hurts from the tip of my small ( Read more... )

... I don't remember the last time when I had some spare moments. These several few days were beyond busy. Apart from a small walk on Saturday, I have done nothing else that sit in front of the computer and translate. Well yeah, I went to school today. But gah, what a rest that was.
Must finish it today, really really have to.

   So here I am, still stuck with final touches to the translation. There's million of them, apparently. I simply cannot get some parts to sound well and there are still several which I do not understand at all due to strange dialect used. Gah! I wanted to have it finished yesterday. Well, the publishery house is patient and told me to take time, ( Read more... )

... well, a fairly large chunk, to be precise. That one I mentioned yesterday. Luckily it seems it's not a real thing, just a bit "Edo-ppoi" Japanese, so at least it's not that difficult. But damn, I want to do something else instead. My research, for example. Or play with cats/wife. Or... something. Something different. I realize I am snivelling, ( Read more... )

   ... the translation is finished. The roughest version, I mean. Now I have some 10 or so days to polish it. It will be tough, especially because a) I have lots of other things to do, b) there are some puns which are very hard to translate and most of all, I have still some 10 pages in the middle which I left untranslated. It's a part of a kabuki ( Read more... )

   I-can't-stand-it-anymore ( Read more... )

It's been a fucking bad day today, translation-wise - and otherwise too ( Read more... )

I'm losing more and more time, but it's getting interesting ( Read more... )

...and there's a national holiday on Monday, so we can expect one long, lazy weekend ( Read more... )