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Still working on NaNoWriMo. Richard has stopped because he was behind and it was causing him too much stress (legitimate reason) and because his writing wasn't good enough (stupid reason). After all that's hardly the point, and also I read his stuff and it was way more carefully written than mine. So I got pissed off and told him if he was quitting for the latter reason, I may as well quit too because I have no writing qualifications and was just slinging down any old crap. But while I was distracted, the bastard hacked my Google Docs and read a great chunk. I know he's being nicer than he should because it's me that's written it (it *is* quite bad) but he somehow talked me into carrying on - mainly because I was quite close to the end anyway. Now at 44,000 words. Annoyingly now the end is in sight, I just can't keep up my previous speed, though I should still be done in time.
N.B. My various internet stuff is easy enough to get into if you know me and share my house. hammerhydra would be wise to remember that door swings both ways. And that he's backed up his "bad" story on the very same service.
I'm vaguely wondering whether proof-reading might be a way to go. Not in terms of NaNoWriMo (no way is anyone going to read *that* turkey until I'm damned well finished with it) but as something I might be OK at professionally. (OK, now I'm aware this post is guaranteed to be a huge mess of errors). But I read pretty fast, I'm not too bad at spelling, and I can't stop picking up typos and errors in stuff I happen to read. The thing is I have no idea how you get into that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure I've done stuff that amounts to proof-reading in a friends-and-family context, but I'm not sure how you'd prove that to a prospective employer. There seem to be qualifications out there, but I'm not sure whether they're something you definitely need, and they seem like a big investment for what might just work out to be a pipe-dream. Also the work seems to be split between self-employed and working for employers. I don't think I'd fancy being self-employed as a rule - too much record-keeping and responsibility, plus not knowing where your next pay-check will come from. That said, I'm suspecting getting employed to do a thing you have no background in in the middle of a recession is going to be an up-hill struggle.
N.B. My various internet stuff is easy enough to get into if you know me and share my house. hammerhydra would be wise to remember that door swings both ways. And that he's backed up his "bad" story on the very same service.
I'm vaguely wondering whether proof-reading might be a way to go. Not in terms of NaNoWriMo (no way is anyone going to read *that* turkey until I'm damned well finished with it) but as something I might be OK at professionally. (OK, now I'm aware this post is guaranteed to be a huge mess of errors). But I read pretty fast, I'm not too bad at spelling, and I can't stop picking up typos and errors in stuff I happen to read. The thing is I have no idea how you get into that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure I've done stuff that amounts to proof-reading in a friends-and-family context, but I'm not sure how you'd prove that to a prospective employer. There seem to be qualifications out there, but I'm not sure whether they're something you definitely need, and they seem like a big investment for what might just work out to be a pipe-dream. Also the work seems to be split between self-employed and working for employers. I don't think I'd fancy being self-employed as a rule - too much record-keeping and responsibility, plus not knowing where your next pay-check will come from. That said, I'm suspecting getting employed to do a thing you have no background in in the middle of a recession is going to be an up-hill struggle.