[Harumanbo Harucheonja] "20 Minutes of Daily Transcription... It Changes Your Life"

"Parenting with transcription was no longer just depressing."

Elementary school teacher Kim Boa experienced depression while raising her child. She continued writing and encountered transcription (筆寫). She said, "Transcription refined the appearance of my writing more elegantly and enriched my writing. Sometimes, it also comforted my heart." She added, "If someone is tempering themselves through depression and loneliness, I recommend 20 minutes of transcription a day." Ha Gayoung, who transformed from an ordinary office worker to an entrepreneur, started reading and studying during a time when her self-esteem hit rock bottom. She believed in the power of reading and transcription.

Including them, six people?Lee Jinwook, Kim Minjung, Cheon Seonga, Na Aejeong, and others?compiled their life-changing experiences with transcription into a book titled . Transcription, meaning 'copying by hand,' is like foundational work for writing good texts. It helps improve concentration and provides vicarious writing experience. Writing directly on paper with writing tools such as pencils, ballpoint pens, or fountain pens is more effective. Although it might be undervalued as merely copying someone else's work, all famous writers started with transcription. The authors boldly suggest abandoning the idea that transcription must be done only with pencils and pens. To do anything long and properly, it should not be difficult. Using a keyboard instead of a pen is also fine. They recommend investing just 20 minutes a day. To catch both reading and writing with transcription, they advise doing it slowly and carefully. If time is limited, even copying one paragraph a day slowly and reading it thoroughly is good. They say there is no need to study difficult reading methods or writing theories.

The authors say their writing and lives are divided into before and after transcription. "When we started transcription, we were not confident that we would become writers. The six writers, each living with their own concerns in their respective positions, simply started transcription to express their lives more vividly in writing," they said. "We did not expect that tapping the keyboard with our fingers for 20 to 30 minutes a day would change our lives like this."

Cheon Seonga said, "Through transcription, I began to dream again of having my own book, a dream I had always held close to my heart since childhood. After having two children and becoming isolated from society, I felt like my name would never be called in the world again." She added, "The dream I had longed for, to find my name again rather than being just someone's mother, was realized with this book." Na Aejeong, a working mom who writes in her spare time, said, "By reading and writing every day through transcription, I naturally grow. Growth enables new challenges." She said, "A virtuous cycle of transcription?becoming a writer?growth?challenge?regrowth occurs, and the future looks even more promising."

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