Some words on translating a book I've been translating a book named Key Concepts in Creative Writing into Chinese for about a week. It's the first I want to do a book's translation and I thought it would not be too hard. But days past and I'm still on the first chapter. There are an alphabetical menu and 134 entries in total, and I just finished things like preface. I searched related info on the net and found that even a skilled translator couldn't complete over 500 words' work in a hour, given they work 8 hours a day. And I think an hour a day and 500 word's translation would be enough for me. However, I'd like to finish the whole book and send it to a publisher to see if I can print it and get my name on it, because the entrance exam to a graduate school would come and it will surely sparks my profile. A day passed...I should finish this at once. I got tired after 500 or so words' work, and get sleepy soon at 21:00 o'clock, I don't go to sleep at that time unless I stayed up all night the day before. 5 pages should be done each day so I can reach the deadline I set. Whatever. I have little to say now. Going to work. .... By the way, I just wrote a note（or what's this column's name, notebook? homework? essay? I didn't see the English name shown on the website）, a story named Dream Story 3 in Chinese. It's quite strange somebody here who wants to practice his mother language, but I do. I need to polish my writing skills since it looks very rookie now for my creative writing & writer dream.