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What I didn't tell you yesterday...

Philipp Haidenbauer
Youtube USA Trovo
...because I forgot. Is that I'm also more active on my Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@haidy777) again. I've been relatively active streaming on Trovo for a few months last year, but after the Vacation to the USA , I kinda lost track. Also, my almost 10-year-old gaming PC showed signs of slowly...

Westcity
whatever you say, partner as reply to Looking For

Abraham Kim
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He needed a  beer . It was a sunny afternoon with crisp air. It made his skin feel neither dry or oily. In college he would often take such afternoons off. He would go to a bar with a patio and drink cold beer while watching people pass by.

There was...

Westcity
greg's balance as reply to Remained

Abraham Kim
Youtube useless
Greg was also scared. Thought if Stacey found out she might stop working. She would ask him to start withdrawing funds out of the account.

Greg had kept the balance the same amount since his mom's passing. He had gotten the funds accidentally deposited into the checking account when he had...
Surfing
We have transcended discipline. And neither of us have the desire to publish great works.

Neither do we write anything close to three hours a day lol.

The reason we are consistent is because we keep in touch by writing stories together. Some people send each other texts or do video calls. Some people decide those are too superficial and instead only talk once a year or so in order to "keep it real".

I write story snippets on here as my fun thing whereas a normal person might go watch a 
Youtube
video or surf 
reddit
.


Abraham Kim

Westcity
bored. adventure as reply to Case of the Yips

Abraham Kim
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She couldn't handle whiskey either. Or any liquor for that matter. She chose not to drink beer or wine because she didn't enjoy the taste. But probably she couldn't handle  alcohol at that amount either. Ten, twenty years ago not drinking made it difficult to make friends. These days it...

Westcity
cheap houses as reply to Back down to Earth

Abraham Kim
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Manufacturers put scents into dish soap because research revealed that it made the washer think their dishes were getting cleaner than when using unscented soap. Technically the scents weren't required for the cleaning. Max knew this. But he still enjoyed scrubbing it into the plates. He also enjoyed wiping them...

Westcity
regret

Abraham Kim
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It happened quick. He never saw it coming. Never saw it happen even. In the movies you got to see how people mourned you. How your  death brought people together even for just a weekend.

But in real life you just died. Went into the darkness. No way to see or...

Westcity
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Abraham Kim
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He swallowed the  zinc pill with the water, gulped, and hoped he had enough in his belly. He had definitely eaten enough for breakfast, but it had been some time since then. Maybe he ought to have waited until he had lunch. Yes that would have been the safer move,...

McDonalds
Chuck: WFH

Drew
Youtube weed
Chuck woke up that day and checked his computer. He saw a friend from back home post "Your network is your networth". Lazily he checked the various apps, like leafing through a magazine, he appeared in 20 searches that week, and he was getting noticed. He laughed at the thought....

13 Reasons Why

Philipp Haidenbauer
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So, two episodes ago, I started watching 13 Reasons Why ("Tote Mädchen Lügen Nicht" - "Dead Girls don't lie"). It has been on my watchlist since it came out. I remember it releasing an enormous “scream” in public.

But I came back to it a different way. Recently I started binging...

Bred to suffer (or about a puppy/dog)

Philipp Haidenbauer
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Years back I saw Cats & Dogs on VHS . Ever since I have been obsessed with dogs and in a hate relationship with cats . I can remember myself wanting a puppy but ever never got one. I did get a greek tortoise when I was in elementary school...

Content Overflow

Philipp Haidenbauer
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Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , Disney+ , Youtube , twitch and many other Platforms have one thing in common: Content . I remember a statistic about YouTube that stated that 500 hours of Content are uploaded every minute. That's 500 days of new stuff to watch every day.

Sure, I...

Vatsim (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020)

Philipp Haidenbauer
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Recently I found back to Microsofts  FlightSim 2020. A youtuber and twitch streamer I discovered through the algorithm, a german pilot, sparked my interest again.

You can find him here ( Youtube ) and here ( Twitch ).

So I thought to myself, let's mount my FlyHoneycomb Gear again and make a...

Flash Fiction Practice
Selling Plasma

Abraham Kim
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A lot of the people I listen to at the shelter sell plasma . For a good portion of them the cash they make from plasma is their only source of income. I'll see them invite others to come with them, because as Todd told me, "they get bonuses for...

Abe's Blog
Before the commitment

Abraham Kim
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For me the worst part about the internet is the best feature: infinite access to information.

By this point in my life I've figured out and accepted that the best type of day is not the kind that starts with consuming. It doesn't matter how good the podcast is or how...

Flash Fiction Practice
Fist as weapon - III

Abraham Kim
Youtube
I once had a buddy who got knocked out in one punch. He had been standing on the corner listening to something on his wireless headphones with his hands in his pockets when a youngster came around and threw a fist into his mouth.

This buddy was not a fragile character....

Abe's Blog
Who to impress

Abraham Kim
Youtube
Even if we don't think we are, most of us live lives trying to impress virtual imaginations of how famous people would think about us.

How much time have we spent trying to mold ourselves into someone who would impress some famous designer? Or a CEO we admire? We watch...

Flash Fiction Practice
How Peter Thiel met John Cena

Abraham Kim
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John Cena hadn't always worked for Palintir . Before going around saving rare species of butterflies by breaking people's thumbs for Peter Thiel , he had once been a wrestler... the 'fake' kind of wrestling that is.

His finishing move was called the F.U as a phonetic acronym for "fuck you",...

Flash Fiction Practice
On the 27th floor

Abraham Kim
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On the 27th floor I saw a butterfly on the other side of my glass wall. I wondered how it could've ever gotten so high. I thought of a story of a window cleaner who was also a butterfly collector who had brought it with them up to work. And...
100% day
This is awesome, Keni. 

I also wished to do something similar to this. I once sent you a 
Youtube
video about 
Sam Ovens
sharing his 
War Calendar
in which he first lists out his larger goals for the year... and then he reverse engineers the tasks for the days in which he would need to fulfill to achieve the larger goals.

I think your approach would be more helpful for me because I have less clarity on concrete larger goals for the annual duration. And your approach feels more conducive to exploring what we are becoming curious to rather than top-down defining our goals and trying to force our daily-selves to produce accordingly.

I think I already know the answer to this, but are you willing to share this spreadsheet? Or at least a segment of it? lol. You could even censor out some of the items when you share so I don't know what they are.
Abraham Kim
More than decent
I honestly can't claim any horizon projects because I'm not working on anything at the moment that I have outcome based expectations for yet.

I do have general expectations for continuing to develop the world of 
Westcity
and the characters within it... which I'm doing in the "I found the diaries of Greco" series, but even with that I see it more as practice than a thing I'm horizoning.

Let me know if I'm thinking of horizon projects different than you. I'm interpreting it as the biggest, active project that you are planning to complete.

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Similarly to the saving hte best part for later fallacy that writers make, I think you should just write it through. Write it through because then the real part begins. Finding what's wrong with it and why it sucks.

Most writers seem to do a better job with fixing bad writing then creating bad writing. Most writers refuse to write bad stuff so they sit with their phone in their hands staring at
reddit
or 
Twitter
or motiviational
Youtube
videos instead.

Trust me, your story's going to suck really bad. No matter how great you think it is in your head. So get it out and then let's make it good.

I touch on this in 
Rewriting is easier than writing Yours Truly
 

Also recommend the article that's mentioned in that post. In fact just read that.
Abraham Kim

Abe's Blog
Used to fear open source packages

Abraham Kim
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I spent the summer of 2016 desperately trying to write a novel. Most days I didn't manage more than a paragraph. I' spend most of my laptop time distracted on either reading about successful tech people or watching random things on Youtube . One day I came across a choose...