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Stressless

As an editor, some of the things I do includes:
- Basic proofreading (verb tenses, typos, punctuation, etc).
- Logic checking (Person A just ran away from Person B into a forest, and in the next paragraph, Person A is talking to Person B casually, like they're right next by each other).
- Keep a character log/sheet. Dont want to call Person A by 15 different names.
- Maintain consistent word usage.
- Correct awkward sentences/check for word flow.
- Make a glossary for all names and places.

Some other things I'm suppose to do but am not currently doing:
- Maintain a character profile of each character. E.g.: How old is Character X? What skills does Character Y have? etc.
- Maintain dialogue consistency between characters. If a character is speaking in a country/red-neck slang, he better not be speaking in the Queen's English accent two chapters later unless he had gone through an intensive accent-training program in between.
- Release more chapters per week.

SirLobo93

Grammar is great. Punctuation could be machine-assisted, if needed.

Understand clauses (independent, dependent)
Understand conjunctions (coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, etc)
Understand how a comma/semi-colon interacts with clauses and conjunctions.
Understand that there will almost always be a terminating punctuation mark (period, question mark, exclamation point, and in speeches: comma).

Anything that interrupts the sentence is set off by either commas or em-dashes (the long dash lines).

For example: I, for one, like eating chicken. The phrase "for one" is interrupting the normal sentence, "I like eating chicken." Therefore, it's set off by commas. Or em-dashes, depending on how you want to emphasize it the "for one"_ phrase.

Quotes are (almost) always in pairs. You have a starting one, and an ending one. Same for single quotes. Look for them in pairs. Read the story backward if you must.

That's pretty much it for punctuation, I think.

Thank you for your answer :)

I'm not sure my English is good enough to do so :(

Stressless It's not too bad. Don't let my reply scare you away. Do try, and you'll see if it is "good enough" as you put it. Even I am learning new things every time I edit (since I rarely paid attention to English class). Do try!

Stressless Go on, try it. :)))

Thank you very much for your support :)
I'll postulate but i'll first wait the answer about my proposal for french translation :)

Nou may I know the title of the novel you are editing?

SidX
Plundering the Heavens. Very useful editor, too, in fact. Even just an extra pair of eyes means fewer minor errors (such as doubled up words from modified sentences), but he also provides valuable input from a logic-focused point of view and helps pick out potential inconsistencies. I jokingly and affectionately refer to him as a robot.

JunkieOverThe_Moon Just be a little more patient; I believe there was a holiday in China not too long ago, so they're probably sorting through the mass applications they received. Took me a while to get a reply as well, but they're usually pretty busy ;)

Stressless
Hey,
They will not answer you. It's highly unlikely.
I'm also french and i know a lot of people who are translating some qidian's novels from chinese or english into french and who asked qidian to become french translators. Only one got an answer, and it's because Qidian thought he wanted to be a english translator ...

If you want more informations about french translations, contact me on discord (Drizzt Do'Urden#6672) :)

:O DrizztDoUrden! Can I get a link to those FR translations? I'd like to brush up a bit on my long-forgotten highschool French skills. :S

Wait, so if you want to become an editor/translator, do you just email the recruitment email saying that you want to be an editor/translator? And then they'll send you an application? confused but interested

giantrabbit yes you get an application via emailing qidian then u can take the test for the position you want to apply for

Nou So I did eventually get an email from Qidian about the test and was held up by a week or 2 finally sat down put in a little time and completed; it didn't take to long but found TONS of errors. Quite frankly the test was triggering all of my bad memories I have had of all the mental self editing I've had to go through over the past 2yrs when reading some of these TL's 'edited' releases. I think I did an alright job but I haven't actually heard back from Qidian since Saturday when I submitted it, this is the 3rd day since then since I submitted it at night.

I'm not the best at grammar but I made that story flow!

SirLobo93 The results are announced in batches and if I'm not mistaken, the previous batch was quite recent. So you might need to wait awhile, regardless, all the best to you :)