temporary work on battle through the heavens ch25+looking for a project to translate

[totokkk]

Hello, nice to meet you all. I am new in spcnet, but I have been reading wuxia xianxia works released here for a few months. And after trying it myself, I noticed translating novel chapters is a very fun activity, so I decided to do it too. Thus, I am looking for a project to translate.
I am still a beginner translator, but I have a correct level in chinese and english, and I wonder if there is some interesting chinese novels that you could recommend me for working on (if possible give a summary and link to raw+what is already translated if dropped project).
While I have no project, I will just work on battle through the heavens ch25+ (what is after chap8 in manga, the last released chap) (not very fast though, it is rather as a training than a project at the moment) , because I am really eager to know what will happen next, and it is a very fun to translate novel. I wonder, what is the best : should I send my work to gravitytranslations for helping their work if it can possibly help (though I am not sure whether what I do will help them since it is still a beginner's work), should I keep it for myself since the project is already taken (in which case I will stop sharing my google doc), or should I post it for sharing it with people who also love this story?
This is the link of the drive I am working on for those who could please help me at correcting the mistakes I make XD (comment is activated on the google doc) or help me with advices on how to improve my translation method (I have a feeling that I am sticking a little too much to the original work compared to some other translator who change some words used by the author to give it more sense in english).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

[criticalmind]

Please contact gravity before posting, since they are working on it too. Seems like they are looking for new translators

[gamesmaniac]

Please contact gravity before posting, since they are working on it too. Seems like they are looking for new translators

Like he said, I hope you collaborate with gravitytranslations!!

[totokkk]

I tried to contact them in a comment, asking for a cooperation (in fact, I don't mind joining them if they accept me but i don't think I have the level) but it has been deleted and disappeared (?).
I am just doing this as a hobby, the main goal of this post is to ask for some novel recommendations for a new project, sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't decide yet to work on BTTH, but I rather would like to ask if someone has a novel (that no one works in atm) to recommand for me to work on.

[Kai Heartnet]

I tried to contact them in a comment, asking for a cooperation (in fact, I don't mind joining them if they accept me but i don't think I have the level) but it has been deleted and disappeared (?).
I am just doing this as a hobby, the main goal of this post is to ask for some novel recommendations for a new project, sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't decide yet to work on BTTH, but I rather would like to ask if someone has a novel (that no one works in atm) to recommand for me to work on.

ask them again they have editors even if u feel your level is not up to par at the moment they will still let u join and PR+Edit your work so u will have a project and can improve at the same time will working on your mistakes

Edit: This time instead of comment email them [email protected]

[episod3ux]

^ I suggest you to try again.
If you know Doulou Dalu and it's author i can suggest you to try translating another work of his.
http://www.shenyinwangzuo.com/sywz/

While the demons were rising, mankind was about to become extinct. Six temples rose, and protected the last of mankind. A young boy joins the temple as a knight to save his mother. During his journey of wonders and mischief in the world of temples and demons, will he be able to ascend to become the strongest knight and inherit the throne?

Also you can check the manhua version.
http://mangapark.com/manga/shen-yin-...ng-jia-san-sha

[Bludflag]

I made some corrections.Can`t wait for more and thank you~

[Catahn]

^ I suggest you to try again.
If you know Doulou Dalu and it's author i can suggest you to try translating another work of his.
http://www.shenyinwangzuo.com/sywz/

While the demons were rising, mankind was about to become extinct. Six temples rose, and protected the last of mankind. A young boy joins the temple as a knight to save his mother. During his journey of wonders and mischief in the world of temples and demons, will he be able to ascend to become the strongest knight and inherit the throne?

Also you can check the manhua version.
http://mangapark.com/manga/shen-yin-...ng-jia-san-sha

Yes! I would love to see that story translated. Though I didn't know that it was written by the same author as Douluo Dalu. Should be even better than I expect then.

[totokkk]

Thank you for this suggestion, episod3lux, this novel sounds promising, plus I think this author is a sure pick.
Just do you know if he wrote this or Douluo Dalu first please?
Okay, I have talked to good guy from gravity, and he accepted me as a translator to work with them. I think for now I will continue working on chap 25+ and since they will publish it once they catch up to chap 25, I will put the unedited chapters I finish to translate on my blog https://tototrans.wordpress.com for sharing them atm, and reading readers' correction for giving less work to do to goodguy when he will have to edit my chapter, and delete them once gravity catches up.

Last thing, it might sound a bit greedy from me, but I will probably try to translate (at least the beginning of) another novel during my free time. It will likely be syzw, but if someone has other recommendations for me, I welcome them and thank him a lot.

In fact, I wanted to experience doing a translation "from the beginning", to see if it becomes harder or easier, and have another project to work on.

[episod3ux]

^No problem.
Most likely after since SYWZ is on the same site as Douluo Dalu II.
From what i heard from Ren this guy is a bit more popular in China than IET.

[Nathan Vuong]

BTTH? <3 I like the storyline

[shishir]

I tried to contact them in a comment, asking for a cooperation (in fact, I don't mind joining them if they accept me but i don't think I have the level) but it has been deleted and disappeared (?).
I am just doing this as a hobby, the main goal of this post is to ask for some novel recommendations for a new project, sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't decide yet to work on BTTH, but I rather would like to ask if someone has a novel (that no one works in atm) to recommand for me to work on.

Try this novel...seems interesting..
http://www.tianyibook.com/tianyibook/19/19171/

[totokkk]

Hi, friendly community of spcnet.
Chapters 25 and 26 unedited are out.
As a reminder, I'm now a translator for gravity, but I just post my works until they catch up, and edit it, then i'll replace the chapters by links to gravity.
For this reason, I won't publish there the chapters.
But I will publish links instead :
"Substitute works" to chaps 1 to 24: https://tototrans.wordpress.com/2015...chapters-1-24/
Chap 25: https://tototrans.wordpress.com/2015...oined-gravity/
Chap 26: https://tototrans.wordpress.com/2015...sive-training/

Also, I have chosen my second project as shenyinwangzuo, 神印王座, litteraly meaning “God Seal Throne”, (I feel like my translation of the title isn't very attractive, but I haven't managed to find a better way to translate it, thus if someone has a better way than me to translate the title, I would be grateful towards him to tell me) and those ones, I will happily publish them in spinet forum yeay.

Try this novel...seems interesting..
http://www.tianyibook.com/tianyibook/19/19171/

Thanks for the recommandation, seeing the title it looks original, interesting, and maybe fun, I'll read the first chapters out of curiosity, but I don't think I'll work on it, not for the moment at least, since two projects is already quite hard to manage ^^.

End of my report, have a good day/evening buddies.

Also, I wanted to ask by the way, for releasing the first chapters of God Seal Throne(argh, it hurts my eyes seeing the way I translated the title XD), should it be better if I posted them here, or can I create a new topic, with a more explicite title this time?

[Catahn]

Hi, friendly community of spcnet.
Chapters 25 and 26 unedited are out.
As a reminder, I'm now a translator for gravity, but I just post my works until they catch up, and edit it, then i'll replace the chapters by links to gravity.
For this reason, I won't publish there the chapters.
But I will publish links instead :
"Substitute works" to chaps 1 to 24: https://tototrans.wordpress.com/2015...chapters-1-24/
Chap 25: https://tototrans.wordpress.com/2015...oined-gravity/
Chap 26: https://tototrans.wordpress.com/2015...sive-training/

Also, I have chosen my second project as shenyinwangzuo, 神印王座, litteraly meaning “God Seal Throne”, (I feel like my translation of the title isn't very attractive, but I haven't managed to find a better way to translate it, thus if someone has a better way than me to translate the title, I would be grateful towards him to tell me) and those ones, I will happily publish them in spinet forum yeay.




Thanks for the recommandation, seeing the title it looks original, interesting, and maybe fun, I'll read the first chapters out of curiosity, but I don't think I'll work on it, not for the moment at least, since two projects is already quite hard to manage ^^.

End of my report, have a good day/evening buddies.

Also, I wanted to ask by the way, for releasing the first chapters of God Seal Throne(argh, it hurts my eyes seeing the way I translated the title XD), should it be better if I posted them here, or can I create a new topic, with a more explicite title this time?

Make a new thread specific to the title. Also what's the general connotation / meaning behind God Seal Throne? Is it like something like the sealed throne of God? Or is there some other nuance to it?

[episod3ux]

Make a new thread for it and i suggest you to just post a link to the chapter,in order to get more people to view it.
As for the title.
1.You can make it simple and keep the romanization as Shen Yin Wang Zuo or how you consider it should be.(and maybe put the english version of it on a bracket).
2.Ask some translators like Ren for suggestions.