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 have wanted to do a book's translation and I thought it would not be too hard.
But days have 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 the preface. I searched related info on the net and found that even a skilled translator couldn't complete over 500 words' work in an hour, given  they work 8 hours a day. And So 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 publish it and get my name on it, because the entrance exam to a graduate school would come is coming and it will surely sparks add something to (or enhance/improve/brighten up) my profile.
A day has passed...I should finish this at once. (I've added 'has' to make the tense present perfect because the second part of the sentence is talking about now. When we talk about something in the past in relation to the present time we use present perfect.)
I got tired after 500 or so words' work, and got sleepy soon at after 21:00 o'clock. I don't go to sleep at that time unless I have 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.
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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.

Hi, I just made a few corrections for you. There may be some other things that could be changed but I hope my suggestions are helpful. Great writing and good luck with your translation work!

My English writing exercise (Letter to friend about my weekend)

Dear Nick,
How are you? I hope you are fine. Thanks for your letter. Here’s how I spend my weekends.
I spend my week working hard at the office, but my weekends are very busy too. On Saturday mornings I usually go running and work out in the gym and then I have Java and English lessons. On Saturday nights I’m tired, so I stay at home. I often watch DVDs or read the books.
On Sundays I do my housework: vacuum the floor, do the washing-up, dust the furniture and take out the rubbish. After this, I watch an English show called Extra and read English books.
Well, that’s all, I guess. I can’t wait to hear all your news. Please write soon.
Best wishes,
Kate

Great writing!

Give up

I decided to give up my part-time job.
我决定放弃我的兼职。

I told my boss ：“I feel very sorry that I have no time to continue this job”.
我告诉我的上司：“我感到很抱歉，我没有时间继续干下去了。”

I don’t know if my choice is right or not, but I don’t want to exhaust myself both on mentally and physically.
我不知道我的决定是否正确，但是我不想再身心疲惫下去了。

I need time to study.
我需要时间学习。

Maybe my boss and my colleagues will think I was am a person who has no persistence.
或许我的上司和我的同事会认为我是一个没有毅力的人。

But I have no choice.
但是我也没有办法。

Great work!

The excessive use of the internet

Good day everyone!
Today, I was working on my writing again and I was practicing with an exercise from my IELTS book.
Please. let me know your suggestions about my writing (this area is my weakness, I guess) so I wil appreciate your support.
Thank you in advance :D


The popularity of people using the internet has created a vastly amount of consequences in the psychological and physical health of humans. In my opinion, the solutions with a preventive approach for avoiding being a victim of these drawbacks could be beneficial.

Navigating over the web could be useful for a lot of purposes such as studying a language or communicating with people who are far away from us. Nevertheless, the excessive use of the internet could have effects on psychological health. For instance, there are people who feel less interested in going out with friends because it is more easier to stay in the house and watch a movie. Thie behaviour could lead to the development of (or just 'could lead to mental illness') a mental illness, such as depression. A posible solution could be to make a daily plan of our activities which includes the time we should be using it. This has possitive effects because we put clear limits to our actions.

Another disadvantage is related to psychical effects, which some of the most common of which (or 'of which some of the most common are...) are vision problems and backache. For example, when I used my gadgates for 2 hours without a break, my eyes starts tearing to water and this makes me need to stop it. Also, my muscles are can become (or 'become') too tense due to being in the same position for prolonged periods of time. An effective strategy is to exercised daily because with this simple habit people stay away from their cellphone at least for 30 minutes.

In conlusion, it is a fact that the internet is exceedingly fashionable to use nowadays. However, an excessive use of it could make cause psychological and physical problems in people. But Preventive measures could be efficient to effective in helping to  avoiding them.

You have made some spelling errors which I haven't corrected as I think spellchecker can do that but great writing! Good luck in your studies! :)

I guess you are living in Australia. I'm not Australian but I would say, "Oh, sorry. I think this is the wrong bus. I made a mistake. Sorry." Then I would smile and walk away. I'm British so I would be quite apologetic like that.

Yesterday, I watched a TED speech (normally we say TED talk). It's about offering parenting advice for people who live in <strike>the</strike> war zones. <strike>Through the speech I knew</strike> By listening to the speech I learnt more about how people live<strike>d</strike> through explosions, when fighter jets <strike>were</strike> are flying around their buildings, dropping bombs while their children <strike>were</strike> are screaming, terrified from the noise. Some of those parents w<strike>h</strike>atched <strike>their</strike> their children, with relaxed and carefree natures, become fearful and withdrawn but were not able to cope with that (or 'but were unable to do anything about it' / 'and were not able to cope with that.'). How sad <strike>is it</strike> it is! It reminded me of the little boy in the book Kite Runner, having suffered from the war and unthinkable cruel abuse, never knew how to smile. That makes the parenting advice crucially important because the quality of care that children receive in their families can have a more significant effect on their well-being than <strike>from</strike> the actual experiences of war that they have been exposed to.

A great piece of writing! 

Note:

I changed some of the verbs to present tense because you seemed to be writing about a general thing you learnt. 

The children becoming withdrawn and fearful  and someone being unable to cope are both negative so I would use 'and' not 'but'. 

Dear adorable, pretty, gorgeous, lovely, nice, great, astonishing, beautiful women, I congratulate you <strike>with</strike> <strike>the</strike> on International Women's Day and wish <strike>to</strike> you more smiles more warmth more love from your loved ones!
You are all super!