“A Life in Flow” — An Intro

Writing a book on surviving, living and prospering in The Flow Society

Anders Abrahamsson
3 min readNov 21, 2013

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When the time has come, it is there. When you feel it, in every neckhair, in every corner of the gut — just doing it! Yes. When all the decisions are made, it is the delivery that counts. Less talk, more workshop!

Writing a book? There is nothing mythical about it. Really. No mystery. Like Wordpress states, just below the editor in their Full Screen mode — “Just write”! And, as in a workshop, it is mostly dealing with sweat and periods of anxiety, mixed with joy. In the end (painfully?) releasing the written products from its author — for the “general public”. When ready? In a Perfect World — never ready! But with product milestones of Drafts and Editions.

Panta Rhei!

Workflow of #FlowWork. Postings on Medium and on my personal web hub. Pages added to a webspace (T. B. A.). PDFs for d/l. Then. Print!

With that said.

Today, I just outlined my very detailed (working!) schedule for the write-up of the book “Ett liv i flow — Hur överleva, leva och berika sig i flödessamhället?”. Yes, the first edition will be in Swedish. Google Translate might be an option for “those-who-cannot-wait”-ers. Also known as “Early Adopters” :).

For your service (taking away the fun often coming with gTranslate ;), this time: “A Life in Flow — How Survive, Live and Prosper in the Flow Society?”. An Inspirational Guide.

The Working Schedule — captured via Whitelines Link . In the columns: Chapter number, #2Do-checkboxes (one per section — 1000 words in average per section, giving approx 4000 words per chapter), chapter name, and last but not least name of each part.

And, platform of choice for the Writing Process? Initial postings will be done here on Medium (imagined to be a just-enough-social for the expected-to-be-qualitative response with sidenotes optional to the right). This will be the first publishing platform for the first drafts, delivered incrementally. One section, one chapter, one part at a time. Until the First Final Edition. To be published — April 8, 2014! Yes, the deadline is very sharp — for reasons I will return to.

We have reached an end for the most frequent snippets shared with the the hectic and stressful “status-sphere”. It is time to step back and reflect. Space is made for the patient long-reader to step forward to converse questions that matter. I am not sharing when I have a refill on my cup of coffee that frequent anymore. Something you haven’t even noticed.

But I will still need that coffee with cream for the write-up of the book ;).

Stay tuned!

Well, just for the sake of contradicting myself. Time for a refill! (Work with) this posting about to reach its end!

PS. The book is financed through a three-step process, that somewhat relate to “Crowdfunding” — but shall not be mixed up with that term, really ;). I will blog about this strategic flow separately on http://andersabrahamsson.org and here on Medium. In short: It has passed the first stage of Corefunding. It is now in the process of Peerfunding. Both these loops are closed. The first open funding round will be beyond the publishing of the first Swedish edition in April, 2014 — and that final stage is named Tribefunding.

The first two stages are fully known by both first and second name ;). In that last stage, the target groups are identified to the degree it resonates strongly for the “Tribes” who want to see the book translated into English! So, better off having this write-up for you in this early stage ;). DS.

Hoffice buddy. The paw of #UchiTheCat on our desk ...
…a Holy Birman who couldn’t care less :). #DeshiTheCat equally indifferent, the brothers sharing the same peaceful state :).

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Anders Abrahamsson

RE:LOVE THE WORLD. Messaging For Improvement. Family, Aikido, DJ, Writer. Love is the hero! // Here on Medium: First draft of a book done. Check Publication!