Try brushing your teeth with your left hand, if you’re right-handed. (And with your right hand, if you’re left-handed.) Really. Try it. But beware—things can get messy. Do… Read More

One of February 2023 fun reads. Because I like Chuck P. so much when he isn’t directly talking about sex, I figured I would read one of his books in which he does directly talk about… Read More

This is such an old podcast episode. And yet, I find that most of what’s in it still holds true. #admin 🌊 Call me Ithaka. Everything I do is organized here. 📚 The… Read More

A house ghost on the day of tear-down. Someone buying a dead person’s clothes from Goodwill. Taking a drug to get into someone else’s head and to see the world through the window… Read More

I may not know what I don’t know, but at least I know that I probably don’t know some things. Actually, I don’t have the desire to know everything there is to know. This i… Read More

Of the various visualizations, this one, I like best: A dolphin, an anchor. Make haste slowly. But, like, make haste, for sure. #festinalente 🌊 Call me Ithaka. Everything I… Read More

Grandma died in late January. She was the last of my grandparents. Now, for my family, that generation has ended. She died in a different country. Sadly, my mother couldn’t go. But t… Read More

This post is so useful: https://blog.erlend.sh/emancipatory-migrations I have been using Element for several months now, and it is absolutely great. And I have zero technical knowledge! El… Read More

Learning something new every day. I had no idea that the Superbowl doesn’t pay the half-time show artists—not only the main headlining celebrities (who have many ways to profi… Read More

It never does. The dictionary definitions may provide some common ground for people who have never encountered a given word before, but after that? All kinds of personal meaning gets attache… Read More

Having individual short stories is nice, but banding is also fun, more than I thought. Conveniently enough, I wrote short stories in spurts. The period in which I feel like I must “tr… Read More

Where does this pride come from? I was talking to a friend about Wikipedia. Oh, Wikipedia, with its constant nagging about donations. I used to donate to Wikipedia for several years. But n… Read More

Mainly, for people in the US. From: https://www.copyright.gov/eco/gruw/help-author.html If the author’s pseudonym appears on all of the works – and if you want to reveal the au… Read More

Every time I feel unease, it comes down to some form of this: It doesn't matter what other people think about me. What matters is what I think about me. In order to remove unease, I must li… Read More

That list, for Sponge. Cleaning feels nice, both online and offline. Putting all the idea seeds on one page feels nice. There are books, there are movies; there are life observations, there… Read More

How to set up Wordpress multisite: replace code. Once upon a time, this was handy for me. Leaving this here for reference. Original: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATIO… Read More

Mainly, for people in the US. This is for derivative works. In my case, it involved translated works. This is the template you can include in the Notes section of the registration: &ldquo&hell…Read More

The first 2/3 of the episode is heavily focused on the creative process of writing a novel. I compare it to “walking in a forest without a map.” I think the next time I do an ep… Read More

There is no pattern at all. None that I can recognize. Some posts on this blog get twice or thrice as many views as others. This surge does not depend on the day of the week. It also doesn… Read More

Yesterday, there was much talk with a friend about ads, especially in podcasts. Anchor is building more features around this, and I am looking into them. Ads in and of themselves aren&rsqu&hell…Read More

Already! A month of 2023 gone! One twelfth of the year, gone! Time flies. And then it crawls. No. It flies and crawls simultaneously. Sometimes, it does neither. As stated in the digest (… Read More

Mainly, for people in the US. Registration can be made at any time within the life of the copyright. If you register before publication, you do not have to re-register when the work is publ… Read More

I am in the process of restructuring my life. After the recent streamlining of tools I use, the following are left: Scrivener Reminders (the one that comes with iOS and MacOS) write.as Workf… Read More

It’s that time of my life when I think about Amazon—again. It’s fascinating that it is the one major platform where I don’t publish my books, and yet it is also the… Read More

This interface is brilliant: Great, just great options. And uploading took literally ten seconds. I am so excited about this new platform!!! Basically, Laterpress (https://www.laterpres… Read More

Mainly, for my own reference. This is what I use for Sponge and 아임 드리밍. I am not a Logic Pro master. (In fact, I don’t know if what I do counts as… Read More

I haven’t tried using Laterpress yet. But this sounds very cool. They’re talking about combining everything into one place (eventually): online reading epub download subscript… Read More

For those who were curious—this episode includes short snippets of me reading some Korean & German text. ;) Might also be of interest to those who are fascinated by what sounds li… Read More

For my own reference. This is what I use for Sponge and 아임 드리밍. Now that I am moving away from notetaking apps, I am basically using this blog as a publi… Read More

Recently, I closed one of my Buttondown accounts, for this pen name’s newsletter. I also closed my account for Nimbus, a notetaking app. Both Buttondown and Nimbus are excellent tool… Read More

Doing this, these days. First of all, it’s delicious. Second, it contains a lot+++ of carbs. This is surprising to me, because it looks like the classic low-carb diet food. But I gue… Read More

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00722.x Self-Altering Prophecies are expectations by a source person that when communicated lead to behaviours of a target… Read More

One of January 2023 fun reads. There are maybe-spoilers in this post… but probably not. Nah. Not really spoilers. I don’t think. An intriguing puzzle mystery, with a literal p… Read More

…is that even without much training, most likely you will finish, not die at the finish line, and will get a participation medal. In fact, you can even run three of them in a year an… Read More

Spam mail addressed to dead people. Fighting over something valuable, like salt. Does a single strand of hair know when its owner is dead? The agreed-upon reality. Love at first death. Lesse… Read More

I just looked at the thumbnail, and it is ridiculous. It is ridiculous in that I don’t have a difficult time believing the headlines in the thumbnail. Teenager holding in farts arou… Read More

That is one of the marvels of Labrador. His truthtelling is so purely loving of everyone close to him. What he is doing isn’t lying. It isn’t filtering. It isn’t ignoring… Read More

I have this personal taste thing. I like short stories being published individually, especially in the ebook format. There is no reason not to to do this; ebooks don’t take up shelf sp… Read More

With so much rain recently, everywhere I go, there’s a mushroom party going on: They're everywhere! Can't take ten steps without seeing another batch! There! More! They… Read More

For some reason that I cannot pinpoint at all, this year I have no difficulty switching straightaway from 2022 to 2023. I think this has never happened to me before. 😆 Usually, the… Read More

And the first step is not to glorify suffering. How do we do it? By avoiding the attachment of unnecessary meaning to pain. By avoiding the identification of the self with pain. That way… Read More

I am not talking about utterly measurable things like one-day classes or even a 4-year college degree. Obviously, those things will end. (Hopefully! Hopefully one can graduate within 4 years… Read More

A tree can't grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. - Carl Gustav Jung Since yesterday, I’ve been experimenting with Mastodon and Twitter. The Twitter account was delete… Read More

War against cold… cold war… over! Many things helped. Sleep, lots of sleep. Advil, also lots. Some work, to prevent blueness from sheer boredom. A fire TV series. Mental/emoti… Read More

This was written at some point in 2022 as part of the newsletter. As I moved to different newsletter services, no records remain elsewhere. So I'm backing it up here. #writing Come to thin… Read More

TikTok is small but growing, and my goal there is to reach people who need to hear about privacy and security. From The New Oil (https://blog.thenewoil.org/transparency-report-2022-and-goal… Read More

Ich bin ein Stern am Firmament, Der die Welt betrachtet, die Welt verachtet, Und in der eignen Glut verbrennt. Ich bin das Meer, das nächtens stürmt, Das klagende Meer, das opfers… Read More

…and feel chilly, and need fuel to burn, I suggest you watch “The Glory” on Netflix. It’s a Korean series. It will make you furious with indignation and excited abou… Read More

What is this terrifying thing! Is that a whining baby owl? I refuse to practice! #random 🌊 Call me Ithaka. Everything I do is organized here. 📚 The latest stories are… Read More

“Long time,” it feels like. From “Stories. Not a blog.” https://storiesnotablog.com/soulless-labor I read this post the day it was written. It showed up on the rea… Read More

…of how much I can sleep in a day. The strategy has been to sleep a looooooot before this cold gets worse, so that once all the coughing and sneezing arrive, I won’t have any r… Read More

Some characters are more autobiographical than others. Destination: Detour has possibly the most (consciously, deliberately, intentionally) autobiographical main character out of all fiction… Read More

Interesting… #random 🌊 Call me Ithaka. Everything I do is organized here. 📚 The latest stories are also above. Click on the covers. 📻 Sponge shortcut. B… Read More

From December: https://imaginariumkim.com/digest/december-2022/ I can tell that I am focusing a lot on recurring things, such as podcasts and blogs. Granted, the recurring things, well, bec… Read More

Archived from #stateofthedesk —a newsletter that used to exist. This newsletter is one of the things to go away in 2023. As I make space for some things, other things inevitably disap… Read More

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along. Rumi #quotes 🌊 Call me Ithaka. Everything I do is organized here. 📚 The latest stories… Read More

No, he’s not an actual Labrador. No, that’s not his real name. 😂 But he sure can run a lot and fast. We considered different dog breed names, but Labrador just had a n… Read More

I enjoy self-publishing and sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.' - Ryan Lilly The definition of badass. Meanwhi… Read More

Weird, weird editing. Weird, weird setup. No barrier between night and day, fire and electric light. No barrier between sleepless reality and dreamy hallucination either. Not even the barr… Read More

[Noctuary] Noun. (plural noctuaries) A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal. [Dividuals] Not individuals. [Natatorium] a swimming pool, especially one that is indoors… Read More

New year! And, ramble alert. Seriously. What is wrong with me. 😭 Every single paper notebook I have ever owned, I have dismantled and thrown away. The most long-lasting writings I… Read More

Especially, private words. Private words are heavy. They have weight. I don’t keep many words private, percentage wise; but what I do keep private tends to mean a lot—albeit, pr… Read More

…I am posting here three times before it’s noon. Ah. What a song. At first I thought it didn’t have any impact, but now I’m just hooked. These youngsters. These… Read More

https://itunespartner.apple.com/books/articles/apple-books-digital-narration-3479 Yeah, this isn’t going away. The ghost is out of the machine. The female voice is so breathy. ԅ……Read More

One of December 2022 fun reads. I read the Korean translation of the German original. The English title is “The Burnout Society”—a curious word choice, “burnout,&rdq&hell…Read More

This is how I feel these days: I am tired of visuals. They might be the most beautiful visuals, but I am tired of them. When they move, especially, I shut down. This means that I find it ve… Read More

They are done…! Tech Support will be pleased. The things I do to please him! … …Which are things that I should have done anyway. But hey, I wasn’t doing them fo… Read More

At some point, it becomes really inconvenient not to have confidence. Life goes on and one cannot keep looking back. In that regard, “the churn” is almost healthy. Yes, when dri… Read More

…from a few days ago: Owl on fire. Hahaha. Duo’s charm is that it (?) always looks slightly deranged. At any given moment, it is capable of beating the shit out of you with… Read More

Merry Christmas! And by the way, Season 3 of “Emily in Paris” is here. Hehehe. I wonder what she will do with Gabriel, this season. This is very important to me, what she does… Read More

I have been waiting for AI narration for a long time. I have also been waiting for machine translation (that functions) for a long time. The former, narration, is here for the English langu… Read More

It is rare that I let someone actively remind me about the same thing over and over again, even in a joking fashion. It is even rarer that I actually enjoy such jokes as jokes. Yet rarer… Read More

Of which there are none, here in this part of Southern California. But still: Piano, the instrument, is cold, cold. Because of that, the warmth it produces feels all the warmer. There are… Read More

One of December 2022 fun reads. Listened to in German. A cozy mystery that was surprisingly exciting! There’s some serious stuff going on here! And now comes the spoiler. SPOILER&he&hell…Read More

I have always thought that the concept of “Santa” is creepy. An old man with a long white beard dresses in red (top and bottom!), sneaks into people’s homes, and instead o… Read More

See. Some things just put me in a good mood. I don’t know why. It makes no sense. But they create happy pictures and the gloom fades. Only when I think about them going away does the g… Read More

It is too random for there to be meaning in the story itself. I was in a half-filled parking lot in the middle of the night. It was the sort of parking lot with bright white lamps, so it wa… Read More

What I love is that the site lets you filter stories by length. Love love. Length of story is a huge factor in figuring out if the story will match your mood. And since stories are about tas… Read More

Realistically, I cannot stick to breakfast-lunch-(early dinner) forever, unless I never meet people after 5pm. So, sometimes it will have to be (late breakfast)-lunch-dinner. Or even a whole… Read More

Gloom. Planning. Distraction. Dinner. (Italian.) Lawyer—who actually knows what is going on with actual people who do the actual writing! Sharing pen name on first encounter. The… Read More

The problem is never when I want it and don’t have it. If I want it and don’t have it, I will simply keep wanting it and then eventually have it. Problem is when the “shou… Read More

Recently, the concept of time has been stressing me out. But the thing is, time is an illusion. I know this from first-hand experience. (I believe many people know this from first-hand expe… Read More

Mad translation shall occur, to make up for not working on as many fiction WIPs as originally planned. These are all short stories or short novels, so this SHOULD BE DOABLE by EOM!!! ENG t… Read More

Just trying this: https://chat.openai.com/chat Holy ****! The thing can even speak Korean! It’s better than any machine translation, actually! It actually speaks in full sentences!… Read More

Route 1: For new-to-me writers In chronological order of events: Because it is there Yup. I read most kinds of books, regardless of genre. So, seeing the book in front of me (on a device)… Read More

One of December 2022 fun reads. This is a re-read, but I’m logging it here anyway, because I haven’t ever logged this story before. This particular story title is also used for… Read More

It’s pouring! It’s like there is a hole in the sky! Haha! Much louder than an alarm clock. Ah. This is nice. Coffee! Super!I am beginning to sleep fine, even with coffee. Mayb… Read More

Finally! Tutanota now allows separate sender name settings for separate email aliases! This was the most ridiculous mildly-PITA aspect of using Tutanota, and now the feature is here. I don'… Read More

From Korean to English. My first KOR to ENG translation of my own stuff. This story is in that murky territory between a short story and a novel. I think I’m gonna dub it a short nove… Read More

Soooo, since my body is undergoing all sorts of changes these days anyway, I thought I’d try cow milk again. I’d stopped drinking it a few years back, when drinking it gave me a… Read More

...because even on the consumption side, I am too drained to start anything new. I have a few go-to movies for this state. (Books don’t work as well; they feel more active. You can&rs&hell…Read More

The word sadomasochism is most frequently used to describe a particular sexual inclination. In fact, most dictionaries specifically only talk about sex-related definitions. But I find the w… Read More

Much of what I used to think of as “improving quality” in podcasting was actually just the justification for lingering/procrastinating in order to forget my own awkwardness. I us… Read More

Early start day. A day when stuff I’ve done in the past pays for today by becoming the topic of a simple post: https://imaginariumkim.com/digest/november-2022-digest/ And so when thi… Read More

Translations do not take less time than original (fiction) writing. When I write, I do not plan, I do not outline, I do not do sketches. After a story is done and I make space for new stori… Read More

Try it! It’s supposed to make your phone less addictive by making it look less interesting. I think it’s working! My phone looks like a newspaper now. Anything that moves looks… Read More

…has always been a challenge for me. By nature, I am a ruminator, a brooder. But I have decided to stop thinking about myself this way!!! And to accomplish that, I tried to analyze… Read More

I like listening to audio things: music, podcasts, audiobooks. They are great for miscellaneous multitasking (ex: while cleaning)… …or so I thought. When I look at how much I… Read More

Not Youtube, not Tiktok, and not Vimeo or Peertube, either, but something like write.as instead. For mobile. Paid for, no spammy ads, no spammy comments, no “algorithm.” Lean… Read More

Beware, this post contains meandering thoughts. From 2012 to mid-2021, everything I wrote was fiction. The length and medium differed, but fiction, for everything. Starting late 2021, thin… Read More