Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

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In the store he got bread and cheese. The cashier didn't look at him more than she needed to. She wasn't part of the network. They hadn't gotten to the folks out here yet. but soon they would. He would try to savor these few days of freedom before everybody...
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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

Abe's Blog
Routine in a routine-less place

While visiting my parents' I found myself not taking my usual morning walks. We take a daily walk here in the middle of the day. It's a big time investment. About 1.5-2 hours. So I guess for awhile I've held off on any walking of my own until my mom,...
2021-04-12 16:58:20

Pinging

One thing I've found beneficial from writing is how it provides a live connection with the people you write beside. We might not always have something to say for every post, but when I do get to talking to them, having been writing makes it feel like we can just...
2021-04-12 01:58:50

Documenting Adagia
Compartmentalize

One thing I realized when I finally converted Becoming Abe's project-type from a collection to a memoir was how absurd it is have a single all encompassing memoir series. I realized this only when confronted with the UI that asked my target length. The highest allowed was 12K words. 

My initial...
2021-04-09 15:00:35