# Scottish Writer Internship at CryptoMize A Scottish writer at CryptoMize composes copy that is born in Scots — not English translated into it — for Scotland-facing engagements across the Lowlands, the Doric North-East, and the Northern Isles. The instrument is the dial: broad Scots for local trust, lighter Scots toward Scottish Standard English for wider reach, and the judgment to set it per audience. The Scottish Writer Internship in Delhi at CryptoMize runs six months, certified, with intake open through the year. The desk exists because Scotland-facing engagements need copy that Scots readers recognize as their own — community pages, campaign lines, cultural material written from inside the language rather than converted into it. Interns draft in Scots daily, learn the desk's spelling convention, train the register dial between broad Scots and Scottish Standard English, and finish with a published portfolio. For freshers who think in Scots, here is the work, the eligibility, and the selection process in full. ## Facts - Location: New Delhi (HQ), CDR Building, Chhatarpur - Type: 6-month internship, certification provided - Availability: immediate, rolling intake (always hiring) - Compensation: discussed at screening ## What you will actually do - Draft copy born in Scots — community pages, campaign lines, cultural and heritage material — composed natively rather than converted from English - Develop a distinct Scots voice across formats while holding the desk\'s spelling convention line by line - Train the register dial as one deliberate instrument: broad Scots where local trust is the objective, lighter Scots toward Scottish Standard English where reach is - Write Doric-flavored copy for North-East audiences and Central Scots for Lowland-wide material, with the audience call made before the first line - Edit your own drafts for rhythm and idiom — Scots humor and cadence survive editing only when the writer protects them consciously - Draw on the makar-to-Burns literary inheritance for cultural work, keeping that register out of copy where it does not belong - Publish through the CMS with correct Scots-language metadata and track reader response to register choices - Assemble a published Scots portfolio across registers and readerships by the end of month six ## Skills - Native or near-native Scots composition - Voice development within a held convention - Register-dial control — broad Scots to Scottish Standard English - Doric and Central Scots audience judgment - Idiom and cadence protection through edit passes - Literary register literacy from the makar tradition - CMS publishing with Scots-language metadata - Reader-response reading for register calibration - Research grounding in Scottish cultural context - Self-editing discipline before senior markup - Deadline reliability on a live calendar - Respect for heritage-sensitive community material ## Tools - CMS publishing workflow with Scots metadata standards - The desk spelling convention and style guide - Concise Scots Dictionary for lexical verification - Search Console for Scotland-facing page performance - Register-reference corpus of desk-approved Scots copy ## Questions and answers ### What does a Scottish Writer intern do at CryptoMize? You write copy directly in Scots — community pages, campaign lines, cultural material — train the register dial between broad Scots and Scottish Standard English, and publish under a named mentor across the six months. ### How is writing in Scots different from translating into Scots? Translated Scots carries English rhythm underneath and readers feel it immediately. Writing natively means the idiom, cadence, and humor originate in Scots — that origin is the specific skill this internship trains. ### Which Scots variety should I write in? Your own, first — Central Scots travels widest, Doric carries North-East belonging. Month 4 rotates you across audiences so the published portfolio demonstrates range beyond your home variety. ### Does the Burns tradition actually matter to this work? For cultural and heritage assignments, yes — the makar-to-Burns inheritance is the register readers expect in ceremonial copy. Part of the training is knowing when that voice is right and when plain community Scots serves better. ### Is the Scottish Writer Internship paid? Compensation is set at screening against demonstrated skill, engagement class, urgency, and record. Figures are never published; each offer is constructed individually. ### What certification does the program provide? Six months at our New Delhi HQ with a certificate on completion — and a published Scots portfolio spanning registers, which the desk treats as the real credential. ### What does selection involve? An application, a short original-composition sample in Scots (not a rendering from English), and a register-judgment conversation with the desk lead. Roughly two weeks. Apply: https://cryptomize.com/careers/internship/apply/