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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.

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jeanyoon.ch@oi /oi % cat why-i-started-writing

Why I started writing

2024-03-20

Ideas come and go.

Looking back, some of my old ideas seem stupid. Yet I can see a clear connection between what I was thinking a year ago and what I am imagining now. I need a way of recording that connection beyond taking notes. Writing is a different medium: it asks me to revisit and articulate what I am thinking at this moment.

I do not want to spend too much time on writing for its own sake. This is a record of thought. I write quickly, loosely, sometimes in sentences that barely make sense, with plenty of grammatical mistakes. Those mistakes are not necessarily a problem. What matters is the idea.

ChatGPT enters after that first, hurried pass. I use it to put flesh on the bones of these rough notes and make them readable to others. At the time of writing, I also used it to produce Korean versions for another audience. The starting point remains the unpolished thought, not the finished prose.

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