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August 28, 2009 at 2:56 am #1006423Up::0
Hi Leela
You know I like to write and there are a lot of samples in my blog (which I won’t link to in fear of breaking the new laws)
August 29, 2009 at 7:11 pm #1006424Up::0That editing rate sounds kind of fun. I tend to copyedit as I read anyway, so it’s just a matter of spare hours.
For instance: the latest Jennifer Rardin novel, which I read this evening, has an incorrect homophone and at least one possible authorial wrong name use in the Orbit paperback edition. I’m also fairly sure that there’s a visual clash between using italics for dialogue for two separate internal voices at one point which would have been better served by returning the first voice to nonitalic text and separating it with commas.
That last may be a stylistic decision, but the first two should definitely have been picked up on by the publisher’s editors.
(Then there was the character who was written as deaf about half the time and with normal hearing the other half. Definite continuity / presentation blunder there.)
I should ask: approximately how many pages do you need copyedited in an average month? I can do about ten to twenty thousand normally, but that’s when the number of errors is only about one per fifty pages. If these are going to be heavier going – say, one or two errors per page – I might be lucky to get through one thousand, let alone ten.
September 15, 2009 at 10:51 pm #1006425Up::0Hi Leela
This sounds like a great opportunity. I have qualifications in business (degree), project management and training, as well as practical experience in all three. I have also had considerable exposure to writing and editing, through my day to day work which is heavy in documentation, and editing a PhD thesis for one of my uni lecturers (while I was at uni). I would love to hear from you regarding some fill in work for writing, editing or project management.
Thanks
JessOctober 13, 2009 at 11:20 am #1006426Up::0Hi Leela,
Just thought I’d check in to see whether there has been any more progress with the new website? I am still keen to write for you!
Cheers, Lizz.
October 15, 2009 at 12:07 am #1006427Up::0Stupid website was supposed to be completed by now – but still waiting.
Sigh.
I don’t speak computer programmer – and they certainly don’t speak entrepreneur!
At this rate, I’m hoping to launch before Christmas, but realistically it’s looking like early 2010 – and trust me! You’ll ALL be hearing about it!!!!
October 15, 2009 at 1:30 am #1006428Up::0Leela, my sympathies regarding your trying to get a website going AND the problems of getting the creators of same to understand what you want!!! You may recall from other posts that I have been having the same sort of problems.
My difficulties have spanned the last 20 months or so and eventually I decided to learn how to do it myself, only using the “experts” where needed and where they would be prepared to work to strict instructions. I will be launching a new version of my site VERY soon and then straight to work on the next version with much more in it.
I wouldn’t mind heading off further into writing as such also, but that might just be the next on the list of things I go out and learn how to do. I will be watching for your new site and I hope it works well for you.
October 20, 2009 at 11:51 am #1006429Up::0My Blog Editor David Brewster is a brilliant writer http://www.davidbrewster.com/
I will forward him your details
October 30, 2009 at 10:12 am #1006430Up::0Any chance of getting a sneek peek as to what the website will be called, so that we can etch it into our brain?
And yes, I am still interested.
Rick
November 27, 2009 at 12:57 am #1006431November 27, 2009 at 1:09 am #1006432Up::0TELL me about it.
Such a FREAKING nightmare … I can’t even describe the stress this project has caused …
The website is now 6 months overdue and nowhere near ready … I’ve had to fire the developer and am currently trying to find someone who’ll actually do what they’re supposed to do.
Worst bit is – I know we’re losing a minimum of $10k a month … sucks.
November 27, 2009 at 4:36 am #1006433AnonymousGuest- Total posts: 11,464
Up::0Web development today is not an easy task. So many browsers (and versions) to please on multi platforms (and versions). Dev’s have to resort to all sorts of hacks just to get stuff working right….it’s akin to software development.
Hopefully things will be better when HTML 5 and CSS3 becomes more the norm. And if we’re lucky IE can die a quick death.
November 29, 2009 at 9:54 pm #1006434November 29, 2009 at 10:25 pm #1006435November 29, 2009 at 11:14 pm #1006436AnonymousGuest- Total posts: 11,464
Up::0bigambition, post: 20028 wrote:HTML5 and CSS3????Kind of a poor excuse to be blaming technology don’t you think?
Do you develop?What’s poor is businesses hanging on to outdated browsers.
November 29, 2009 at 11:38 pm #1006437Up::0dan, post: 20035 wrote:Do you develop?What’s poor is businesses hanging on to outdated browsers.
It’s irrelevant, every web developer is in the same shoes. If they’re crap, they’re crap, they can’t blame the technology. They can blame themselves for not delivering what they promised.
Over promising usually amounts to inexperience, there isn’t a computer guy on earth who hasn’t over promised and then later realised their error…. Who knows what the original developer promised or said he could do.
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