“Writing is the gateway to dreams.”
From inspirational phrases to healing language, to resonant short sentences in a sophisticated font.
The writing philosophy and secrets of the "dreaming writer" Koh Do-won, who has matured through writing and rewriting.

‘Godowon’s Morning Letter’ started in 2001 to help me breathe.
After finishing my five-year tenure as the Presidential Speech Secretary in 2003, I wrote down in a notebook the 'Twelve Dream Stories' that came to mind during my trip to Europe, and subsequently introduced them in my morning letter.
From delivering free morning letters to the people of Korea to establishing the meditation center Deep in the Mountains, Ongdalsam, and the story commerce platform, Kkotpinun Achimaeul, the starting point of great achievements that did not remain as his own dreams was his clear and appealing writing that moved people's hearts.
It still provides hope and energy for life to 4 million members every morning.
Even after that, his writings became turning points that opened the way for water at every critical juncture in the morning letter and the deep mountain spring, and helped overcome crises.
Therefore, if we were to summarize author Ko Do-won's writing in one word, it could be said to be 'writing that makes dreams come true.'
Writing became an opportunity, money, energy, and a center of gravity.
His life as a writer and his writing secrets, which have expanded over the past 40 years from a journalist's writing to a president's writing and then to healing writing, are contained in "Writing for Anyone."

“Get sick at least once,
Anyone who has ever tried to heal themselves
“Anyone is a writer”

Writing and life are intertwined.
It's like a fish swimming in water.
Fish don't learn to swim.
They swim in water from birth.
The same goes for writing.
Even people who don't know much about grammar can write delicious articles.
No, rather, you shouldn't think about grammar when writing.
Grammar exists, but writing is not grammar.
Isn't it true that children don't learn grammar and then speak?
A child born with a gift for the gab can easily lose that talent the moment he or she starts studying grammar.
In writing, more important than grammar is living like swimming.
Because that life soon becomes writing.

--- From "1-5 As life ripens, so does writing"

As you continue to write, you will discover that writing also has the power to quell that passion.
If I had continued to live with the same fiery passion I had in my youth, I would not have become the writer I am today.
Because I wrote, I was able to quench and cool this passion.
Because I was able to do that, I can live a little more calmly and peacefully today.
If it weren't for that, what would I be like now?
Writing is like water that puts out fire.
Writing made me gentle and transformed me into a soft and mellow person, completely different from the past.

--- From "1-6 Love and Passion, the Core Fuel of Writing"

What kind of person am I now?
Where are you standing?
It is important to understand this me.
Writing can be said to be both a process of revealing and creating the 'self' and its result.
In some ways, writing is a way to reflect on one's life and a way to complete one's life.
So the beginning of the writing is to observe myself.
Observing and reflecting on myself, that is where the training of writing begins.

--- From “2-2 Six Principles of Writing ① Who Writes?”

Writing requires a sense of balance.
A sense of balance can be achieved when you stand in a neutral and middle position.
This is the so-called 'middle road'.
What is the middle ground? It's not the middle.
It is important to distinguish right from wrong in the middle, but that only amounts to mechanical neutrality and is not neutrality in the proper sense or the right way.
Therefore, writers must agonize over which path is appropriate and just in this era, and which path is truly the right path.
Neutrality and the middle way are about moving your position in the right direction one step at a time through constant self-examination and reflection.
Of course, it's a difficult story.
But we always have to look at this part.
I must decide my position by judging whether it is in the south or the north, and whether it is in line with the cause or not.
--- From “2-4 Six Principles of Writing ③ Where is the Writing Place?”

There are surprisingly many people who say, “I’m not good at expressing myself” when writing.
The phrase "I can't express myself well" can have several meanings.
It could mean that you are unable to express yourself accurately, or it could be a confession that you do not have enough words to use.
To use an analogy to the situation of drawing, it means that you do not have enough colored pencils.
Without a variety of colors, a painting would be monotonous.
There is no comparison between a picture drawn with 50 crayons and a picture drawn with 12 crayons.
No matter how good the artist's skills are, there are limits to them.
To a writer, colored pencils are words.
It's vocabulary.
The more vocabulary and words you have, the richer, more colorful and more accurate your writing will be.

--- From "3-3 Fill the Language Storehouse"

Writing is like chopping logs.
Logs must be chopped into small pieces for firewood to be placed in the fireplace.
When a person receives a whole log and doesn't know what to do with it, when he receives well-split firewood, he throws it into the fireplace without hesitation.
Chopping logs is also a skill.
How elaborately, how usefully, how sharply it is cut.
This too requires practice and training.
The act of chopping a log with an axe is rewriting and rewriting.
Writing is not just a story.
This is a revised story.
It is a refined and corrected story.
You can fix and refine it as much as you want.
--- From "3-13 Writing, Rewriting, and Revising Short Sentences"

Anyone who wants to write must write every day 'as a habit'.
There will come a day when that routine that has become routine will see the light of day.
Whatever the topic or material, writing should become a habit, a routine.
If you are a student, try writing for the school newspaper or magazine. If you are an office worker, try writing for the company newsletter.
Another way is to contribute to newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses.
There are more places than you might think where you can send your writing.
It's okay if I get rejected.
If you keep challenging yourself, one day you may receive a request for a large manuscript fee.
Then the path to becoming a ‘writer’ opens.
When I was in college, I contributed to a magazine called Samteo.
After that article came out, I received over 500 fan letters.
And I received requests for manuscripts in various forms from many places.
That experience gave me confidence and joy in writing.

--- From "4-1 Become a 'Writer' First"

Writing also has a healing effect.
It is a process of looking back at myself to the deepest part of my pain and wounds.
It is a matter of going into the root and writing it down on your own.
Tears will surely flow.
If you cry and write a lot, you will end up vomiting out even the bitterest of sorrows.
Something just pops up.
It explodes.
Sobbing.
A purifying effect occurs in my body and mind.
That is healing writing.
Write down the most painful part of your life.
For example, if it's 'A mother who was hurt by her son', start writing from that part.
It doesn't have to be a beautiful sentence.
I might cry for half a day while writing this.
Let's write it down as we feel it.
If you endure and write like that for half a day, one day, two days, three days, a turning point will inevitably come.

--- From "5-2 Entering the Root of the Wound and Writing"