! Writing After Retirement: A Computing Man and His New Co-Writer

At the end of 2025, a retired computer consultant typed a few plain sentences to an AI: "I am now retired, I want to write a book someday soon." By the end of September 2026, he had written four.

Heon Yook learned to program in 1979 at Hanyang University in Seoul, writing Fortran and COBOL by hand for punch-card operators. For forty years in New York and New Jersey he learned one new machine after another: CP/M, DOS, NetWare, Windows, SQL Server.

In retirement, the machine finally learned his language, and became his co-writer. Writing After Retirement is a practical guide, told in his own voice, to writing and publishing a book in retirement with AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. 

Every chapter takes one step of the journey, opens with a scene from his own writing life, shows real examples from his four books, warns about what went wrong, and ends with a checklist.

You will learn how to:
• Choose a subject only you can write, and gather your material before you begin

• Let the computer interview you, so forgotten memories come back

• Keep your own voice, and check every fact the computer gives you

• Translate your book into a second language, as he did between English and Korean

• Rescue old writing from websites and files

• Make a cover, format a 6×9 paperback, and publish on Amazon, IngramSpark, and Barnes & Noble Press

• Share your book with the people who will want to read it

You do not need a career in computing. If you can write an email and save a file, you can begin. What you need most is a story worth telling. Warm, honest, and practical, this is the fifth book in Heon Yook's memoir series, after From Seoul to Silicon, What Kind of People Were They, Hangul, from New Jersey, and The Story of Ramyeon.