Journal jd's Journal: Transcribing WW1 biography 5
My great great grandmother wrote a biography of her three brothers killed in WW1. I'm typing it all into a LaTeX editor and will be adding a family tree along with a sketched outline of their lives and newspaper clippings.
A best-seller it ain't, but it may interest a few here as these guys show autistic traits and are geeks from just over a century ago.
I have a book of stories (Score:2)
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Will do that.
Expertise needed? (Score:2)
I think I have some bits of a book in me, but it would take an expert to drag them out. So I see it as another kind of business model that would provide experts to help people prepare books.
In my own case I think I need an expert interviewer who can find the interesting parts and maybe create some reasonable structure. I think I could handle most of the editing of the transcripts, but if I was participating in such a business, I think I should focus on scanning documents and cleaning up the recognition resu
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That would be an interesting field. I could see a huge potential market for that kind of expert. Sure, there are editors, but editors only go so far. They can do a lot (working with one for the novel I'm also writing, and they've given me some truly wonderful advice) but for anyone who is new to the game, it's hard to turn that advice into words without the occasional prod.
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There are many experts involved in creating any book, but the particular expert I'm describing could be categorized as a "conversational expert". The top examples might be Studs Terkel and Larry King. Such an expert can bring out the most interesting stories from anyone?
(I'm sort of an expert in editing. My official job title for the biggest chunk was "technical editor", mostly doing research papers for a lab with about 150 researchers. I think I could handle a lot of the editing if I had the right transcri