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I've always loved music, and especially singing (I was in choir in secondary school) and during lockdown
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I decided it was time to become a lot more active with music. To that effect, I've been singing more, fiddling
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with MuseScore more, and so on. Not a great deal is public at the moment, but it has led to one thing I'm
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<br><br>
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The <a href="https://ggroupies.bandcamp.com/">GrafeasGroupies</a> are a group consisting of myself and several
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friends. Together we occasionally make albums consisting of memes and some serious tracks. To the right you'll
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find my cover of 'Mad World', which was included in our second album,
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<a href="https://ggroupies.bandcamp.com/album/mister-typealot-2">mister TypeALot</a>.
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I hope to create more proper music videos in the future. It can be difficult considering my lack of skill with
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instrumentals; I have to rely on YouTube to give good backing tracks, which it can't always be relied upon to
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</iframe>I've always loved music, and especially singing (I was in choir in secondary school) and during lockdown I decided it was time to become a lot more active with music. To that effect, I've been singing more, fiddling with MuseScore more, and so on. Not a great deal is public at the moment, but it has led to one thing I'm particularly proud of.
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The <a href="https://ggroupies.bandcamp.com/">GrafeasGroupies</a> are a group consisting of myself and several friends. Together we occasionally make albums consisting of memes and some serious tracks. To the right you'll find my cover of 'Mad World', which was included in our second album, <a href="https://ggroupies.bandcamp.com/album/mister-typealot-2">mister TypeALot</a>.
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I hope to create more proper music videos in the future. It can be difficult considering my lack of skill with instrumentals; I have to rely on YouTube to give good backing tracks, which it can't always be relied upon to do. Nonetheless, I sometimes find excellent ones, such as for 'Mad World', and in these cases I hope to create more recordings good enough to upload.
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<h2><a id="#transcribing" href="#transcribing">Transcribing</a></h2>
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Transcribing? What's that? Transcribing is accessibility, is what it is! This is something
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I spend a good portion of my time doing, and I've met many wonderful people doing it too, so
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it's very close to my heart. But what is it really? It's not your normal transcribing initiative,
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I'd like to introduce you to the <a href="https://grafeas.org/">Grafeas Group</a> (logo right), a small
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501(c)(3) non-profit organisation that runs <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit">r/TranscribersOfReddit</a>,
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an accessibility initiative to transcribe audio, image and video posts on Reddit for the benefit of
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impairents, slow internet, inconsistency of rendering across Reddit's various official and third-party
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clients, and more. To help these people, the posts are transcribed into the comments, where they can be
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I've been transcribing with the Grafeas Group for over a year as of July 2021, and helping moderate the
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subreddit since February 2021. I've even used a few transcriptions myself in the past when the contrast
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between the text and the background of images didn't
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suit my colour vision (I have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Protanomaly">protanomaly</a>).
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I could talk for hours about transcribing and the Grafeas Group, but it's probably already sounding like
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an advert. Biased as I may be, I do genuinely believe they're one of the best communities on the internet!
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<h2><a id="#writing" href="#writing">Writing</a></h2>
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Writing: my greatest passion in life, and hopefully one day my career. I first became somewhat
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I began writing blurbs for non-existant books instead of paying attention to my classes. After
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writing for the first time in fourth year, with some advice and and encouragement from my truly
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wonderful English teacher, I threw myself fully into the hobby, with the full intention of it
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Over time I've written more first chapters than you might think, and I believe beginnings have
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become for me the easiest part of a story. I have many stories with a rough plan, and one that I've
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first. The novel I've fully drafted, a high-fantasy novel tentatively titled <i>A Daemon's Influence</i>,
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After realising that <i>A Daemon's Influence</i> was not going to be the first prose work I published,
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I moved on to thinking about other ideas. I've written several chapters of a gothic low-fantasy novel
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entitled <i>A Lady in Black</i>, and have the majority of my plans for the low-fantasy steampunk stories,
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<i>The Faces of Undertown</i> and <i>The Iron City</i> written out, but in August 2021 an idea occurred
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<i>Infinity's Omega</i> is the first science fiction prose I've ever written, as well as the first novella.
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for much tighter writing and an easier time plotting out a full plan before even setting the firt word
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I hoped to finish the first draft of <i>Infinity's Omega</i> before returning to university for my
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second year, but I've since seen this won't be possible. That's partially my fault for spontaneously
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Outside of prose, I also write poetry. All of my best, and some of my worst, works are available at my
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<a href="https://allpoetry.com/Murdo_Maclachlan">AllPoetry</a> account. I opened this account not expecting
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to do much with it, as I wasn't great at poetry at the time. However, the website quickly took a special
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place for me. It's one of my favourite websites, honestly, and it makes me sad how little time I get to
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreaming-Ink-Various/dp/B084Z3WWFH"><i>Dreaming of Ink</i></a>. I love
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Another poem to note on my account is <i>Sea of Night</i>, which, thanks to a very kind Redditor, is currently
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</a>Transcribing? What's that? Transcribing is accessibility, is what it is! This is something I spend a good portion of my time doing, and I've met many wonderful people doing it too, so it's very close to my heart. But what is it really? It's not your normal transcribing initiative, such as a large library organising an effort to transcribe old documents; no, at the moment it's something quite a lot smaller.
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I'd like to introduce you to the <a href="https://grafeas.org/">Grafeas Group</a> (logo right), a small 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation that runs <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit">r/TranscribersOfReddit</a>, an accessibility initiative to transcribe audio, image and video posts on Reddit for the benefit of people who would not normally have access to them. This lack of access can be due to visual or hearing impairents, slow internet, inconsistency of rendering across Reddit's various official and third-party clients, and more. To help these people, the posts are transcribed into the comments, where they can be accessed either by simply reading, or where necessary, by assisstive technology such as screen readers.
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I've been transcribing with the Grafeas Group for over a year as of July 2021, and helping moderate the subreddit since February 2021. I've even used a few transcriptions myself in the past when the contrast between the text and the background of images didn't suit my colour vision (I have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Protanomaly">protanomaly</a>). I could talk for hours about transcribing and the Grafeas Group, but it's probably already sounding like an advert. Biased as I may be, I do genuinely believe they're one of the best communities on the internet!
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<p>I am Murdo Maclachlan. I'm a 19-year-old Scottish aspiring author and poet, currently studying for a Bachelor's degree in software engineering. I'm also a hobbyist musician, composing and singing when I find the time, and a <a href="http://localhost/murdo/pages/endeavours.html#transcribing"> volunteer content transcriber</a>.
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Despite my degree of choice, I intend to do everything I can to avoid working in computing. I have a great love of fantasy and science fiction and it's been my goal to write both professionally for over 7 years now. More detail on this matter can be found <a href="endeavours#writing">here</a>.
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