MissVixen It takes some time, be patient.

How does it feel to be an editor?
Quite good, at least from my experience. It's fun working on a novel you like, reading as far as 50 chapters or more ahead on a novel you enjoy than any other readers is capable, and just chatting or discussing the novel with your translator in general. This of course, depends on the translator, and the novel itself. If you come to dislike it, it might be tough. I was once asked to help out a novel that had a harem, which I never read because they annoy me to to no end, I agreed because, well, someone needed to aid it and I had some free time, but it instantly became a chore rather than a joy. Working on that novel started feeling like exactly that - work. Otherwise, editing for me is like reading and getting paid for it. Or that's how I feel when working on my current novels. (P.S. I haven't met a translator I didn't get along well with, so I don't have any complaints about them. Any one of them is great to work with)

How much work(Like time needed)?
Really depends on the novel, its chapter length, the translator's quality, your own speed. But in general, if you took one novel that has 7 chapter per week release rate, I'd say it'd take you around four hours to do them. But keep in mind that's me really averaging it. Some do it much faster, some much slower.

The attitude of the people above you?(Bossy or friendly or neutral)?
Very friendly. You can chat with them just like with other translators and editors, though, they are busy most of the time, so...

      DarkGem

      The first point, damn you love to write long para.

      It took me a while to read.

      Thank you for your efforts

          MissVixen

          How does it feel to be an editor?

          Well, to be honest, it feels like nothing else has really changed. I still read novels, I still scream at silly nonsensical things, and I get to read ahead. All things aside though, there's this sense of accomplishment that you've completed something that will be there for others to enjoy for time to come.

          How much work(Like time needed)?

          it really depends on how you edit. Let me rephrase this: Can you take a sentence and smooth it out easily? How much attention to details do you spend? Do you keep track of everything? Like, everything. This person has blonde hair and blue eyes, age 10. Five chapters later, this same person 's described as blonde hair with hint of blue in his brown eyes, but age 9 all of the sudden? Or do you mainly keep track of the bare minimum (just the names)? How good are you with your verb tenses? Conditionals and subjunctives? Do you nit-pick as to whether the sentence should be read as he had red-like hair, or his hair was a shade of red. Do you constantly get confused as to what the translator translated? All in all, it takes me about 30-90 min to edit a chapter. I'm on the slower side because I tend to habitually skip looking over my punctuation and verb tenses, so I need to manually look over each and every line.

          Now, if that takes you longer to do, it'll take you longer to edit. Some people are fast. 10 minutes top per chapter, and they do like 100's of chapters in like 2 days.

          The attitude of the people above you?(Bossy or friendly or neutral)

          Run. Don't look back. Just run. As far as you can. Don't turn around. There's no one friendly here. QI has a leash, and will whip you until your back is decorated with laces. It's not too late yet, you haven't given up your soul! Run! /s

          All kidding aside, it's pretty great. The bosses are chill. They've been flexible with (my) schedule and we were able to reduce our translation/release rates due to real life issues (well, they haven't pull the but-your-contract-states-that-you'll-be-able-to-provide-us-with-XXX-amount-of-chapters-per-week card yet. if there are any issues, we directly contact our uppers and they usually respond within 48 hours, max. Sometimes it's within a few mins if it's on QQ (I think I forgot my username for QQ :O)

          As for our head editor... he's pretty much dead every time mid-term exams are up. Otherwise, he's very talkative, and if you creep long enough, you might be able to catch the elusive @Chrissy singing some songs.

          And if you want to bribe anyone, bribe Chrissy. He takes Visa and Venmo. Paypal is also acceptable. But I just want a 10% cut.

              Nou Thank you for sharing your experience.

              :smirk:

              Corruption everywhere.

              @Chrissy Bribe master :laughing:

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