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The stakes these days
Jan 15 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
There are no endings, just beginnings
The nature of complexity
Jan 6 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
Shedding Christmas little by little
This Christmas, I am sick, and that might be good, because my brain only slows down when I am sick.
Dec 25, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
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How I started writing again
Nov 15, 2024 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
How to write an essay or memoir: Eastern storytelling structure
May 4, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
How I stopped surviving
Sep 23, 2024 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
How to write an essay or memoir : Curation
Apr 27, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
To a married man: It will shock you how much it never happened
Apr 2, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
What you see is not what you get: Like tiny Ziplocs and Bondage-a-go-go
Jun 7, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
Things I would never
A list
Dec 8, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
How to take power
Mugger money
Nov 29, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
Everything is writing; you don't have to be in front of the keyboard
Reading, sleeping, even breathing
Nov 20, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
A time for ghosts on Halloween but this is not a Halloween post
Reframing neglect
Oct 31, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
How to write a story: Cultural context versus content
Earlier this year, I touched upon several components of storytelling structure.
Oct 9, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
We interrupt this programming to undertake a year-long meju doenjang project
Oh look! A SQUIRREL.
Oct 1, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
What does a writing room look like?
A writing room is my history of pink
Sep 2, 2025 • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐓💨
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