Hey, stranger. How have you been? It’s me. The problem and also an absentee blogger. My last post was November 2022 and oh wow. How dare the five-month radio silence? The nerve! The cheek! Well more like the low energy that no caffeine in the world can save.
The past five months have been a blur; sometimes a blackhole. Even my personal journal (written longhand! because I am a throwback like that!) were merely blips in my timeline. I have consumed kdrama and music. I have stayed up late in the night, watching the stories in my head instead of writing them down. I have written a romcom (still ongoing but I’ll get to that later). And some days, I slept for 10 hours. That’s mostly the memories I have of the past five months.
Not to say that those are my only memories…
On writing: romcom with kdrama feels
So I wrote a thing. I remember starting this all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I have outlined each chapter. The characters have grown on me. I actually already have the ending. In fact as I was starting this story, I have played out each scene in my head so many times, I feel like I was watching a romcom kdrama.
I went ahead and decided to publish this story “The Secret Wife” in Patreon. It used to be in Kindle Vella, but things happened and I had to go publish it somewhere. I was literally biting my nails when I started scheduling its episodes in Patreon, thinking of so many things, but mainly ones along the lines of, “Will people want to even read this? Is my story good enough?” See, this is exactly the reason why I never post my stories before this: That self doubt, that crippling anxiety. It’s the monster in my head that I don’t even want to entertain. But this time, I decided to just go ahead and do it. I was like, “Yeah, I’ll publish it and if it works, it works. If it doesn’t, I still have other projects to try again.” I’m so proud of myself for that growth, that tiny win.
Here’s the mood board for “The Secret Wife.” And please feel free to check out my Patreon page for it here.
Kdrama report Q1: No such luck
I really haven’t been watching kdrama as much as I used to. I tried watching both old and new ones but nothing was sticking and well, here I am.
I recently started “Bo Ra! Deborah” and for now, I’m sticking with it. The main leads get along as much as Tom and Jerry do. I’m curious to find out how they’ll start falling for one another, because right now, based on their interactions? One would think there’s bound to be bloodbath between the two.
I do love a chaotic kpop group
I have a weakness for people with great sense of humor. And by great sense of humor, I mean like these guys. I could watch them forever. My favorites are Eunhyuk, Leeteuk, and Yesung. (Although my first bias is Donghae because whew! That man is good-looking. 😍)
