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darkweasel (显示个人资料) 2011年4月23日上午9:12:15
ceigered:Here I was thinking 50k was a lot of wordsWell, 50000 words of Lorem Ipsum (this generator allows only 10000, so paste it five times) is about 73 pages in the standard font of OpenOffice.org. That really is not very much for a book.
ceigered (显示个人资料) 2011年4月23日下午3:07:37
philodice (显示个人资料) 2011年4月24日下午11:39:17
ceigered:Aren't books normally printed in a bigger font though? So perhaps they'd get closer to ~120. Either way, I was being inspired by all these authors around the place thinking "maybe I should write a book one day", but I don't know if my "ignaval" centre of my brain could handle that much effort!My first 50k word book, stacked up against a fellow author from Clayborn Press, is about half as thick. She said to me, "I had no idea yours was so small!" Yes they do use bigger font and a page layout that halves the size of the pages to make it look longer.
I'm serious. I've decided to do this. As soon as I get translators on board and finish it up I'll go live with an ebook version and paperback and thumb my nose at anyone who says I can't publish an Esperanto novel.
philodice (显示个人资料) 2011年4月25日下午1:29:39
super-griek:I don't think I would have the time to translate (plus, English is not my native language), but I'm prepared to proofread (part of) the Esperanto versionI do not think that any one person has to do the whole thing. I can credit many people for the work and dedicate the book to Lernu.net and pay 10% of the profits to the website instead of a person or group of persons. It is an idea...
Can I check a couple of phrases?
Term of endearment toward a female: Mia kara floretino. Or, Elided, Mia kara floretin'. Meaning, "My precious flower."
