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like mother, like daughter
Jul. 28th, 2007 04:20 pmYou never know what you might get asked to do next. Having successfully indexed a friend's book, a task that had me sweating blood for a few weeks, I found myself asked by her five-year-old if I would index her book.
This was flattering, but a little daunting in its own way. Five-year-old's book is a 20-page story featuring a frequently changing kaleidoscope of characters. There is nothing resembling an overall plot, but there are a few recurring themes.
I am kind of busy these days, but it's not fair to ask a five-year-old to wait very long. So I enforced a couple hours of break time from my other jobs to look over this opus carefully and figure out how to index it. It was exciting to read: something new on almost every page.
You can get some idea of her interests and the kind of book she wrote by looking at the result. Some of these are the specific words in the book, but others are more the author's themes.
( the index )
This was flattering, but a little daunting in its own way. Five-year-old's book is a 20-page story featuring a frequently changing kaleidoscope of characters. There is nothing resembling an overall plot, but there are a few recurring themes.
I am kind of busy these days, but it's not fair to ask a five-year-old to wait very long. So I enforced a couple hours of break time from my other jobs to look over this opus carefully and figure out how to index it. It was exciting to read: something new on almost every page.
You can get some idea of her interests and the kind of book she wrote by looking at the result. Some of these are the specific words in the book, but others are more the author's themes.
( the index )
