Category Archives: writing

Christmas Eve in East Asia is for lovers

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Young

It’s an hour before midnight, and I’m sitting in the first-floor lounge of a hostel in Tokyo, alone with a couple of cans of Kirin-brand chuhai and my laptop. Well, there was the Middle Eastern guy who sat at the same … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged christmas eve in east asia, chuhai, drinking with married people is the worst, lying down to live, sitting down is the best, sitting down to write, standing up to live, thoreau | 6 Comments

New Book: Student Error Correction Guidebook for EFL Teachers in Korea

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Young

Of the four projects I’ve been working on for the past two to three years, I’ve finally managed to get one out of the way, the English version of the “textbook.” I’ve called it a textbook for lack of a … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged efl teaching, hagwon, konglish, language education institute, snu lei, student error correction, teaching in korea, young chun | 5 Comments

Lesson for the new year

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Young

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, but for those of you who do, here’s a lesson I re-learned since my last post: If you want to accomplish anything, keep that shit to yourself. Here’s a short TED video that explains why. … Continue reading →

Posted in Updates, writing | Tagged besides i have a lot of room for improvement and i need more than one day a year to make resolutions, drinking in japan is great, happy new year anyway, i don't like making new year's resolutions because of a lot of reasons but mostly because everybody does it and it's stupid but i don't like doing what everyone else is doing, i'm writing this post to procrastinate in working on the book | 4 Comments

No, I’m not in a coma

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Young

I realize it’s been a long time since I’ve written on this blog. Actually, I only realized it the other week. It’s not that I haven’t written any posts. I’ve actually written at least five or six posts that I … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged setting realistic but unlikely goals is my forte, stephen king is a writing machine, thousand words a day, writing quota | 4 Comments

An Expensive Lesson

Posted on September 16, 2016 by Young

How much is an idea worth? How much are the words that I write worth? How much is an hour of my time worth? As with many people, I greatly overestimate the value of my time and ability. It’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in Updates, writing | Tagged bad luck isn't bad luck if you're just being stupid, cheap computers i buy a lot of them, my time is worth pennies per hour, oh well, set back several months for my next book, stupid mistakes i make a lot of them | 2 Comments

Doing What You Love

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Young

For those of you who don’t know, a few days before my birthday at the end of 2013, I was in a pretty bad motorcycle accident. A car making an illegal left turn T-boned me, shattering my left tibia into … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, writing | Tagged charles bukowski, doing what you love, find what you love and let it kill you, getting back on the bike, i bitch a lot about being poor but it's only so my friends won't suggest doing expensive things, i have very little real-world skills, i'm actually okay with dying penniless and alone, if only i could find a cost-effective way to satisfy my more carnal desires, it's a lonely road i've chosen, sacrifices | 2 Comments

Laid Bare

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Young

I was in the teacher’s office after class to scan some documents when I ran into one of the teachers working the evening classes who was persuaded to buy the book at the recommendation of another co-worker. I had only … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, writing | Tagged billy pilgrim, feel like i'm in one of those dreams where you're at school in your underwear, i'm a modern-day hermit, i'm not a good main character, is honesty the best policy, mersault, what the fuck are feelings, writing a memoir | 7 Comments

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