Windswept, evaluation and the likes
Sep. 28th, 2011 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartGot last year's evaluation results of my work.
I came off over 80 per cent, which belongs to the "very good" category, so unless our idiotic government manages to come up with any new "reforms", I guess I might be able to keep my job for a while. Joy. No, really. It is what it is, but it's work, and it pays the bills, for which I'm grateful. At my age, finding a new job would be extremely hard.
I wish they would still let us retire at the age of 55, as they used to do during the previous regime. I'm turning 55 next month, and I'd welcome the chance to have proper time and peace to write. After all, that was what I always wanted to be: a writer.
Unfortunately, over here, for that you'd either need excellent contacts or disgusting amounts of money. I have neither of those. So, after writing for the desk drawer for decades, I fell into the fanfic trap, for which there's at least a chance to be put up on the internet - even if I'm not one of those immensely popular authors, there are a handful of people who read my stuff faithfully.
I'd love to write some original stuff again, but after having "licked blood", as the Germans would say, the thought of writing for the desk driver depresses me. It might be megalomaniac, but I'd just love to see my name printed on the cover of a book. And not just as the translator; I've done that, and it was a warm, fuzzy feeling when my students discovered said books in awe in the gift shop of Pannonhalma Abbey - but it's not the same.
I could go back to the Grand Fantasy Epos(TM) and try to rewrite the couple of hundred pages that I lent to someone and never got back. Of course, the whole thing would need a thorough overhaul, and I'd do it, if I had the slightest chance to see it published. But rewrite and then type up 1,500 pages for nothing - that's a luxury I cannot afford right now. I could put it up to FictinPress.com, in fact, two or three chapters of Book One are already up, but since it's in Hungarian, the interest is practically nonexistent.
Currently, my only other original stuff are the snippets of the "Windswept" universe. I tried to rework the intro according the suggestions of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stevie_carroll in the recent days, during which I've discovered a fairly old version of the first page written up somewhere, that doesn't match the newer concept at all. But I kinda like it, too. So I'm a bit uncertain what to do... not that it would matter. Getting something published in English would be even more impossible than in Hungarian.
So, that's it about original writing, I guess, at least for the present. If I live long enough to retire, who knows...
I came off over 80 per cent, which belongs to the "very good" category, so unless our idiotic government manages to come up with any new "reforms", I guess I might be able to keep my job for a while. Joy. No, really. It is what it is, but it's work, and it pays the bills, for which I'm grateful. At my age, finding a new job would be extremely hard.
I wish they would still let us retire at the age of 55, as they used to do during the previous regime. I'm turning 55 next month, and I'd welcome the chance to have proper time and peace to write. After all, that was what I always wanted to be: a writer.
Unfortunately, over here, for that you'd either need excellent contacts or disgusting amounts of money. I have neither of those. So, after writing for the desk drawer for decades, I fell into the fanfic trap, for which there's at least a chance to be put up on the internet - even if I'm not one of those immensely popular authors, there are a handful of people who read my stuff faithfully.
I'd love to write some original stuff again, but after having "licked blood", as the Germans would say, the thought of writing for the desk driver depresses me. It might be megalomaniac, but I'd just love to see my name printed on the cover of a book. And not just as the translator; I've done that, and it was a warm, fuzzy feeling when my students discovered said books in awe in the gift shop of Pannonhalma Abbey - but it's not the same.
I could go back to the Grand Fantasy Epos(TM) and try to rewrite the couple of hundred pages that I lent to someone and never got back. Of course, the whole thing would need a thorough overhaul, and I'd do it, if I had the slightest chance to see it published. But rewrite and then type up 1,500 pages for nothing - that's a luxury I cannot afford right now. I could put it up to FictinPress.com, in fact, two or three chapters of Book One are already up, but since it's in Hungarian, the interest is practically nonexistent.
Currently, my only other original stuff are the snippets of the "Windswept" universe. I tried to rework the intro according the suggestions of
stevie_carroll in the recent days, during which I've discovered a fairly old version of the first page written up somewhere, that doesn't match the newer concept at all. But I kinda like it, too. So I'm a bit uncertain what to do... not that it would matter. Getting something published in English would be even more impossible than in Hungarian.So, that's it about original writing, I guess, at least for the present. If I live long enough to retire, who knows...
