blewin wrote:I just read the prologue. Awesome!! Is the narrator Ryner? It sounds like his style. I wonder who it is that "loves" him? that girl (spy) in the anime? I don't even remember her name anymore.
larethian wrote:Hi, I'm back.
At my current rate, this will probably be around 20 to 30 pages a week, if I don't fly.
that will be about 1 volume every 3 months, with 1 chapter every 3 to 4 weeks or so.
I think 20-30 pages a week is quite fast. 1 chapter a month is actually average, so in fact, you'll be releasing faster than other series, especially stalled series. Don't feel pressured to get a lot done... because soon you'll find yourself saying translating is such a pain. It's not worth doing. Personally, I think setting a schedule is good in terms of taking up a project and really taking responsibility for it, but then life is life. So please do take it easy.
It wasn't explicitly stated, but the narrator is either Ryner or
. Because in japanese, the 'I' is actually 僕(boku), and Ryner uses 俺(ore), so unless he used to use boku when he was younger, then it could be the later, but it definitely has to be either one of them. That girl you are talking about is Milk. But I doubt she is the one mentioned.
Thanks for the tip and no worries for me being burned out and pressurized, because I won't really give myself pressure. I believe the project will get more translators in time which will move it to completion fast with parallel translations. For me, it's something I want to translate, so it's not that drear. It can be a bother at times when I encounter difficult sentences or vocab I don't know. The former is more frequent, the later less. I just take it as a way to revise my Japanese before I officially go back to further my Japanese studies. Just as if I'm allocating for studying Japanese daily, I'll be making time to work on 3 to 5 pages per day for about 5 days a week, which can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. The time killers are the long sentences which takes up a few lines, with lots of particles and conjunctions that are abnormal for my English brain. Such a sentence can take me up to 15 minutes (worst timing so far) to create the English equivalent, for just that sentence alone! Other than those sentences that are the main cause of the pain, the pace feels smooth. But I do feel a lot better, that the pace I've set myself is not overly slow.
@KierR I haven't read that yet but it sounds great! For me I'm not particular about quality of english or even consistency, as long as the meaning or intended delivery of meaning or emotion by the author does not diverge too far from the original one. Those are the jobs of editors and supervisors right?
