Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

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Echo and Narcissus Writing Club
Preparation -- ideas, topics, themes

It’s a good idea to come into the club with a list of ideas, topics, and themes you want to write about. Since we’re focusing closely on the mechanics of writing, we won’t be explicitly dealing with how to come up with ideas or how to conduct research.
https://forum.hyperlink.academy/t/echo-and-narcissus-writing-club-details/2597



IdeasCurrently I'm decided...
2021-04-19 14:38:30

Abe's Blog
Longterm Images as reply to 200wordsAday

Images are how we view ourselves. Our story of identity. They are powerful. And power can cut in dangerous ways.

On 200WAD the point was to write. To explore ourselves. Our hopes and desires and even fears and pains. We were creating and sharing images of ourselves together. And because...
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2021-04-19 14:26:56

Abe's Blog
Pythagoras and the Fifth Hammer

#40 in Seth Godin's The Practice
While taking a walk the mathematician Pythagoras becomes enchanted by a sound coming from a blacksmith workshop. Inside he discovered the source as five hammers striking metal. To study what precisely about the hammers lends to such sound he takes them for study.

After weighing and...
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2021-04-18 17:56:11

Abe's Blog
Untitled Shared at Apr 18, 2021

Today I returned to notebooking. I had told drewbaca_ about how much I've been missing out by not doing that mode of writing, but it wasn't until today that I got around to it. And boy did I need to notebook.

Ideas and feelings...
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2021-04-18 01:35:06

Writing Driven Development
What do you want in your Launchpad?

Usually the home page is called a landing page. This term fits marketing/sales sites better than a webapp you visit regularly. For a website trying to sell you a product the landing page acts as a funnel attempting to captivate you into. At the least it should make you want...
2021-04-16 19:55:11

Documenting Adagia
What makes writing on Adagia difficult

Observing the gap between what people wish to write and what they do, I'd argue writing is difficult anywhere. But in this snippet I will share what makes it difficult on this website in particular.

I wrote about three modes of writing I believe precede any successful writing project.

Notebooking with...
2021-04-16 13:46:20

Abe's Blog
Three Modes of Writing

These past four weeks I've thought a lot about the different phases/modes of writing. Currently I'm focused on three of them:

Notebooking / Journaling No defined goal or directionJotting down observationsNo rules
FreewritingThere is a direction (write about idea Z)No scoped form. You don't know yet if it will be a novel or...
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2021-04-16 13:00:52

Abe's Blog
Copy

Intellectually I've been a big fan of online cohort based learning clubs. But in action I've never thought they were good for me. Their value propositions never appealed to me. But this club shared by dealingwith in The Echo and Narcissus Writing Club...
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2021-04-15 17:16:18

Abe's Blog
The Writer's Perspective as reply to Awkward Silence

If the writing is what makes someone a writer, then I think a requirement to sustaining the habit is the perspective Keni mentions:

... on any given day and all I had to do was focus on [a topic]. A comment, a question, a movie or an incident in a day...
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2021-04-14 16:46:06

200 Words a Day
Initial Elation

Most of us met on 200WordsADay.com. Using a single word to describe 200WAD then it'd be optimistic.

I was elated to discover a gathering of people I could've never imagined before. Up until then online communities meant either Facebook or Reddit. Facebook was still based on the people I knew...
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2021-04-13 15:16:09