The novelist Ri Xiangxia had a dream. The 60-year-old father started playing online games on the recommendation of his son. He took a very rare shape of a beautiful girl and, following this shape, treated the customers with the same attitude as usual. Other players, however, attracted his son’s competitor, a heavy class player, and he became a shemale goddess unconsciously
(https://twitter.com/NaMelanza/status/1201327309115908103).
Critic and novelist Maedo Mashima remembered a past: When he was in junior high school, a girl in the class suddenly said to him, “Don’t you say that sighing will grow old? I want to grow up early, so I started from elementary I have been sighing since the sixth grade. “
The former island had to change things at that time. After listening to these words, it was just a perfunctory pass, not at ease. Until now, he felt that he could write a novel with this beginning
(https://twitter.com/MAEZIMAS/status/1200563996580970497).
In previous sounds, I have talked about proofreading and reviewing from the writer’s standpoint many times. With their meticulous and responsible work attitude, knowledgeable professional skills and respect for works and authors, they have made contributions that can not be ignored. However, how do these proofread themselves treat their work and what kind of life they are living?
Independent proofreader Mutian Duzi stopped working on time-based work last year, and only accepted work based on word count. As a result, his income this year was very miserable. She had to think hard about how she could make a living from this kind of work. Obviously she had worked hard to the extreme, but she still could only get such results, which made her think that she could only change her work attitude
Mu Tian can continue to work because he has a partner and doesn’t worry about living expenses. However, if it is necessary to tell young people who want to follow this path in the future, they will not be able to support themselves by doing book proofing work with the same working hours as other occupations
Mu Tian likes work, and if you want a lot of work, you can do it. But in the years after independence, she realized that if she only did book proofreading, it would be difficult for her to control the workload herself (too much affected by the client’s situation). She felt her life was being worn. It may depend on your own mentality
She realized that she couldn’t always keep up with the speed and workload when she was young and healthy. Well, maybe it can only increase the unit price of work
Mu Tian estimated that if a single copy is 100,000 words, the proofreading cost is 0.5 yen × word count, then that book is 50,000 yen. Suppose a book takes one week (actually 5 days), and if you can finish 4 books a month, it will only earn 200,000 yen. And the premise is that she can always receive the right amount of work without interruption. With such income, can I have enough food? Can I support my family?
Mu Tian also didn’t know if it would be possible to do this kind of work only from the beginning. She was raised in a magazine. Just like starting from a lap around the track and gradually developing the endurance and running ability to run a marathon, proofreading a magazine article and a book is completely different
When Mu Tian started, it took half a day to proofread a magazine article, and it took several years to take charge of a book. After that, she spent a few more years trying to figure out how much time she should spend and how to prioritize in order to complete the work on time
She hopes that there will be a lot of space to allow these technologies and experiences to be passed on to others and passed on
Among the proofreading of Japanese books and magazines, the official staff of the publishing proofreading department of the protagonist of the TV series “Revised Girl”, Etsuko Kono, is only part of it. There should be quite a few freelancers like Mu Tian now
Well, as “proofreading” knowledge and technology may be learned at school and in the workplace. But the people who learn these things will embark on the life and knowledge of freelance workers, so few people should teach them. Mu Tian hopes that someone can teach these things
In the publishing world, Mu Tian knows a little about proofreading this narrow field. She didn’t know what kind of treatment and work the editors, designers, printing houses, bookbinding factories, channel dealers, and bookstores received. From the bottom of her heart, she looked forward to fair and just returns at every scene
(https://twitter.com/s_mogura)