The Writing Practice

The writing session is the sacred core of Anky. Everything else — images, meditations, stories, blockchain, AI — exists in service of getting you to write.

The Rules

1. Write for 8 minutes without stopping. No pausing. No editing. No backspace.
2. Stream of consciousness. Write whatever comes. Don't plan. Don't filter.
3. If you stop, you stop. The system knows. The timer tracks keystrokes and pauses.

What Happens When You Write

Under 8 Minutes (Not an Anky)

Your writing is analyzed by Ollama (local AI, your data never leaves the server). You get feedback:

{
  "is_anky": false,
  "persisted": false,
  "feedback": "You wrote for 6 minutes and 23 seconds. There was a notable pause around minute 4 — that's often where the resistance lives. Tomorrow, push through that wall."
}

For v2 seed-identity users, sub-threshold writings are not persisted to the database at all. They exist only in the response. This is by design — only real ankys deserve to be remembered.

Over 8 Minutes (A Real Anky)

Your writing crosses the threshold and becomes a persisted anky. This triggers a fan-out of async work:

1. Anky Image Pipeline — Ollama generates an image prompt, Gemini (or Flux/ComfyUI fallback) renders it
2. Cuentacuentos (v2 only) — Claude determines the chakra, generates a story in the matching kingdom, spawns image generation and multilingual translation

{
  "is_anky": true,
  "persisted": true,
  "writing_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "anky_id": "6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"
}

Flow Score

Each writing session gets a flow score based on:

• Duration — longer is better, but only past the threshold
• Consistency — steady typing vs. bursts and pauses
• New lines — fewer is better (newlines often indicate the conscious editor stepping in)

The flow score is stored with the writing and used by the guidance system to calibrate meditation and breathwork difficulty.

The Writing Archive

For v2 seed-identity users, every persisted anky is also mirrored to the filesystem:

data/writings/{wallet_address}/{timestamp_unix}.txt

These files are served publicly at /data/writings/*. The only access control is knowing the wallet address — by design, since the wallet is the identity.