40 hours of writing, goal reached! thank you Ollie. 您这么厉害！

写一封信

春节，送给朋友 《玄鸟》

intensive work on a single sentence with a tutor- both in order to understand how to put a complicated thought together, and to find a single word, without which the whole thing is lifeless. Got there. Extraordinary happy.
向生活发送一张账单，要求立即付款。因为它很讨厌。Xiàng shēnghuó fāsòng yī zhāng zhàngdān, yāoqiú lìjí fùkuǎn. Yīnwèi tā hěn tǎoyàn. Send life a bill for being Meaner than Expected, and demand prompt payment..

after two days of playing.... writing weird New Years blessings. This is my favorite- 向生活发送一张账单，因为它比预期的更卑鄙，并要求立即付款
Send life a bill for being Meaner than Expected, and demand prompt payment.
but I also liked the one about 请老虎和龙来吃饭, 因为他们聊得很愉快. Invite tigers and dragons to dinner because they are great conversationists. Actually my writing sucked and I needed to use a lot of Google help. But at least it was fun.

omg more revision
And three parts still to write.
what was I thinking?

第一部分。 massive amounts of rewriting and tweaking.

词汇句子。

tiny didactic piece

第一部分结束了。pretty intense day. Loved the writing. Didactic discourse- a great format for a limited vocabulary.
about 1000 hz

Part one rewritten as a didactic discourse. To get the feeling that I want. Of a journey inexhorably unfolding in small, simple steps.
950 hz

working with a native tutor on 词汇 for expressing scapegoats and solutions... awesome.

drafting and reviewing.

I ADORE having a limited yet functional vocabulary. It forces me to be really, really clear about what I want to say/write, and think outside the box for ways of expressing this.
It often involves having to talk in pictures.
This gives me a TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGE.

playing w 句子 and the subtle energies of some 词汇。。。 Generally doing a lot of thinking, and related listening and gradually getting my thoughts together. This occupied 3 hours..(unclaimed)

Working with tutor, looking at partially written text. Not really any tweaking . The subtle differences in the way some terms are applied eg 科技 literally means science and technology, but is now widely used referring to technology, eg 人工技能，A I。Also some grammar points now understood better. Since this is pretty much the point of writing, this was really valuable.

R E V I S I N G 第一部分。

revision. amazing way to transition procedural learning into output via "practice" cf Justin Sung
next task write other half. really enjoying.

第一部分结束了。
480 汉字。
areas of time wastage----
spelling mistakes typing in Hanzi.
switching between Latin alphabet and Hanzi, estimating this wastage at maybe 20%.. Significant. Procedural? Practice will resolve?
The planned keywords worked well. Kept me to topic, and forced a level of simplicity.
Unknown 词汇。 4？ dropped in in English, trans via AI and noted in the text for revision.
Question for next session- is there anything I can do to up output to time ratio?

how to construct complexity out of related parts- Justin Sung learning expert. Watched 2 vids last night. Really helpful even though not explicitly aimed at lang learning.
1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHkUIW46ks (relates
to lang learning- the need for immediate practice/live use of acquired material....)
2 breaking down complex and possibly entangled material into key words. Applied to learning from a textbook.
I am doing the reverse. Generating the text... ie reverse engineering.
next session
1. refine the key words
2. Shallow dive to the entire thing insert engl words if necessary to keep moving.

科技生活
part one written. got a bit bogged down.
try to tackle rest in one go. Need a new mindmap or a new key word list?

lot of evening spent gathering 故事词汇。Since writing was not involved not claiming.

figuring out my approach, how to break it down into small bite size bits.

我在准备。
Fleshing out in engl the structure for a long written discourse on technology and the present time/world situation.
This immediately highlights the vocab I will either need to acquire or work around. (eg manipulated (unknown) vs pushed (known). CD be approached more creatively as fable.
我准备好。

词汇句子。

我正在写我对视频的反应。
639 hz

听到了王先明面试对 《生命的真相》。
很有兴趣。
我写了他的生活故事。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJRjk8geHo
I am writing faster, with more ease, I think I looked up 3 or 4 words.
Out put doubled. 15 mins editing.
655 汉字

Writing in response to a 播客。 Philosophy and a strange experience when listening to 中文。in the demented language of a 2 year old. But got there, sort of, in the end.
391 hz

今天的故事， using a random topic generator, which asked for "canoes". Turns out I was able to write for 90 mins about something I encountered yesterday after swimming in the bay. Did not know canoe, 小小船 was fine, and the paddle was a pusher. No prob. I had a lovely time telling a lovely story, and now I am tired.... While in his dreams, a little boy is paddling a little canoe through the endless starry universe... 无尽宇宙。 handy words from previous poetry writings.

writing a couple short poems.

Constructing a disability narrative to help a beginning teacher/ speaker express simple and positive ideas about a dyslexic child....

新词汇-写的东西。

Reflecting on my output areas-
1 pedagogical- sentences and stories designed to reinforce 新词汇。
2 NARRATIVE AND PEDAGOGICAL 今天的古树 ...
3 NARRATIVE AND PEDAGOGICAL- translating my writing- exercises
4 EXPRESSIVE–Writing poetry, expressive prose writing
I realize that I need to balance out the different kinds of output. And the difficulty of slotting in the more expressive side, which does not necessarily come on demand. But will not come at all unless invited!

Turning an amazing lesson with an incredible teacher, into little sentences and stories that teach me new vocab.

今天的故事 是一个父母的故事。
350 characters
First live use of 可怜
可怜的孩子们 poor children.
First use of 2 Measure words for people.
Had to learn 词汇 for nanny and nurse, and revise 词汇 for world.

Writing a little story to remember vocab.

a narrative to help me learn 推荐, (to recommend). It would be better as a silly story or poem.

a ton of needed 词汇 being learned in connection with yesterday's writing, which I will attempt to rewrite again today. not claiming learning time, just flagging it as a necessary part. Hopefully it will boost the activity later...

completing work on the writing project. Translating a rather long piece of my writing into Chinese.
Used words I have never actively used "live" before.
Needed words, once learned and now forgotten. Relearned these words and used them immediately.
Used simple words and even metaphor to express complex ideas. I loved this. This is really making a limited 词汇 into an asset.
Had to "acquire" a limited number of words. These added to the immersion list for the day and encoded.
While the exercise was a little long I was able to concurrently listen to native material not previously heard, and in general I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience.
I had to pause the recording twice when reaching for a word. Helped. Word came.
I quite like the concurrent activities, writing and listening. The one sort of provides a context for the other.
Like the threads on the loom
provide a context
for
the wandering shuttle.
二零二五年， 一月十一日
小暑 傍晚 八点 五十九分
jraven

Set myself a translation exercise. a piece of my own writing into Chinese. 353 words. mostly done. Tired now. need a change of play.
Learned tons. more on that later.

Writing poetry. An unusually intense day. The poems are tiny. Sometimes they just come, without a fuss, but there is one involving the sound of crickets in the summer night that is being obstinate.
peraps they were obstinate crickets...
I sometimes use bitranslation, moving through multiple rounds of Chinese and English till I land where I want to be. Actually this is my usual method. Unless things are very simple, and the poem just comes.

there are not many words
in this poem
it is not their
weight,
but the light that shines
through
the gaps between -
二零二五年， 一月，十日
傍晚， 六点， 四十八分
jraven