RE: theinkwell Newsletter December 2020 | ^^Holiday Plans ^^ Writing Prize ^^Earn Forever with The Ink Well ^^ Vacancies for Community Builders^^

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I thank you, once again, for considering me for the HBI award. I really like the idea of the personal story library. I am already working on it. I would like to collaborate with @theinkwell in any way possible, but I may not be the best community builder, so I hope there will be some proposals, in that sense, from competent and suitable people to fulfil that responsibility.
I am very excited about the writing award. I know there will be a lot of participation and it will be a big challenge. I have a couple of questions about this award: Will there be only one entry per participant? And: Is there no limit to the length of the texts?
Greetings.



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Hello @morey-lezama, thank you for joining us.
For the writing prize:
Yes, there will be only entry per participant.
We are still discussing the length of the texts. At the moment, we are thinking about 2,000 words (for the English version). What do you think?

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Two thousand words seems a good number to me. It will allow us to sufficiently expose our ideas. In addition, I agree that it be one entry per participant. There we will read to each other. Greetings

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There is another idea and I welcome your opinion.

The idea is for English speaking writers to collaborate with writers who do not speak English as their first language. The English speaker would help the other writer to edit the English version of their story. So often, the machine translator mangles the syntax and the language of a story that may be beautifully written in, for example, Spanish.

Writers could name their collaborator in their post, and The Ink Well would provide a special award for writers that collaborate.

The challenge post would ask that writers that want to collaborate can comment, for example:

"I speak English as a first language and I am willing to collaborate."

What do you think of the idea?

Is it too complicated?

Perhaps @lacrucita could add her opinion as it is her idea 🙂

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I think that's a very good idea. I don't think it's complicated. It would be one more task for those of us who don't have English as our first language: to look for a collaborator who would be encouraged to participate and win with @theinkwell. This practice, without a doubt, is going to affect positively the quality of our texts. This is a goal to which we all aspire.

I think that translators like @hlezama and any other that can be added could also collaborate.

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I thought that the collaborators would be within The Ink Well community but now that you raise it, they could be anyone on hive.

We have allowed three weeks for entries so that everyone will have the best opportunity.

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I think it is more convenient to expand the possibilities of getting collaborators.

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Yes, I agree, and it will help to build The Ink Well community!

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Hey there!

I think the proposal of collaborators is a good idea. I once worked in collaboration with @soyrosa for the We Event
by Marianne West. I wrote the story in English, and she worked on a photograph of hers to illustrate the story, but she also took the liberty of editing it. By doing that the story was better.

I have only translated a couple of my stories and that it's because I don't enjoy the process. So I decided to either write the story in Spanish or in English, depending on where I'm publishing it or in which language I get inspired

But in any case, I believe that every text needs a second pair of eyes, either native or non native speakers. Of course, non native speakers would need more help.

Perhaps team work? Two people reviewing each other? Just focusing on grammar and spelling, and giving advice in the case of wording or content (with comments) for the writers to decide for themselves.

I'm thinking out loud but let's see what other ideas come to mind 💆🏻‍♀️💡

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