Swet Columns
December 1, 1999
SWET Newsletter, Number 87
SWET on Thursdays in Y2K [event announcements]
Writing for Magazines — the Writer-Editor Relationship
Speakers: Aeve Baldwin, Tokyo Classified; David Hulme, ACCJ Journal; Jordanna Potter, Eye Ai; Daniel Scuka, J@pan Inc.
From Pennies to Profits: Marketing on a Shoestring
Speaker: Thomas Ainlay, Jr., Legacy Memoirs
SWET New Year's Party [announcement]
How We Got Here
Editing and Era... more
December 1, 1999
What’s in a Page?
by Lynne E. Riggs
FAQ corner Setting Your Units of Charge
What’s in a page? 250 English words, 350 words, 200 words, 25 lines, 2000 characters, 400 characters, 200 characters, 1200 characters . . .
All of these, and others, are commonly encountered “standard” pages, by one measure or other. Translators, editors, proofreaders, rewriters, book designers, typists/keyboarders—wordsmiths of all kinds—consort with several of these... more
September 17, 1999
Aunt Eva Redux: Burnt Out?
by Doreen Simmons
Benevolent Aunt Eva, who recently had the pleasure of seeing off her severest critic when he was transferred to a place more suited to his talents, finds it a little difficult to relate to a problem that seems to come from the inside, but has to get back into the saddle somehow.
Dear Aunt Eva,
OK,... more
September 1, 1999
SWET Newsletter, Number 86
SWET on Thursdays—Fall Line-up [event announcements]
Copywriting: How to do it, how to sell it
Presenter: John McCreery, copywriter, translator
Writing for Newspapers
Presenter: Karen Hill Anton, newspaper columnist, writing instructor
The Craft of Editing: Arts and crafts books and translated materials
Presenter: Kim Schuefftan, editor, food writer
SWET in the Kansai: SWET on Sunday... more
May 1, 1999
SWET Newsletter, Number 85
SWET on Thursdays [event announcements]
Writing Workshop [support, critiquing]
Leader: Tim Young, writer
Writing with Pictures [famous Japanese documentary photographs]
Leader: Phil Ono, photographer
Narration and Script Translation [writing for narrators and listeners]
Presenters: Tom Gally, translator; Doreen Simmons, narrator
From the Trenches
Translating Popular Fiction 2 (PG) [fiction categories of U.S. publishers]
SWET in... more
March 1, 1999
SWET Newsletter, Number 84
Regular SWET Meetings Begin [event announcements]
Translation 101 [advice for beginning translators]
Presenter: Fred Uleman, translator
Researching, Writing, Publishing, and Promoting Non-fiction Books
Presenter: Mark Schilling, non-fiction writer
Writers' Forum [invitation to gather for mutual support and critiquing]
Proposer: Tim Young, writer
1999 SWET Book Fair [announcement]
Over Their Shoulders: Translation as a Team Process (LER,... more