@Christine_SL
Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that I am writing a new novel, one that is inspired by real life events.
This is a fresh project--very different from The Star and His Shadow anthology :)
This story is still writing itself...it doesn't have an ending. Yet.
I hope you can find the time to support this new book as well: The Unexpected Match.
Thank you! xx
My dear beloved readers...
I am going to publish the next chapters of book 2 soon...I am just currently sitting with the previous chapters beginning from when Soo Jin left the penthouse...because life has a funny way of playing with us sometimes...
Currently, my life is imitating this art...and these chapters that I wrote months ago are resonating hard. And I just want to sit with these emotions I wrote and created even before they happened to me.
Let me go through the journey again...let me feel them again...regardless of how painful they can be...
I read all of your comments and I know some of my chapters hit you hard. Now let me sit with you and cry with you.
xx
hey everyone. it's me. been traveling. and also sick for a few days now. so it took days to upload new chapters. im actually very excited to upload more...but also very anxious as we are approaching really emotional chapters. im not sure i can handle it!!! brace yourselves :)
Hey everyone!
It's me.
I'm sorry it took a while to upload new chapters. Life got in the way.
Plus, finishing Book 3 seriously left me exhausted mentally, emotionally, and also physically. I think this book is the most emotional by far and I think this is also the one that has the most potential to be turned into a KDrama series! LOL. I can't wait to share it with you all! xx
So yes, I am back. And I will try to upload regularly now so we can all finish Book 2 journey and venture onto Book 3 :)
Thank you for your patience, love, and support! xx
Thank you everyone for all the love! xxx
For the follows and the votes. I plan to upload new chapters for book 2 really soon! xxx
Sorry it's taking a little while longer to post more Book 2 chapters.
In reality, I am already done writing the full saga of The Star and His Shadow--4 books in total.
However, I've gone back and forth polishing books so it was difficult to switch emotional registers as everything--emotions, situations, comedy--escalates from book 1 to book 4.
So that's my mistake. I should have published as soon as I've finished the book instead of moving forward to the next one.
Anyway, the reason for the delayed upload is that I am an immersive writer. I re-read all my chapters before uploading. And when I don't feel the emotions, I don't upload. Because I believe that I should still feel the emotions seeping through the "pages" so my readers can feel them too.
So please be a little patient with me :)
Thank you and hope you stay in this journey with me til book 4 :)
After I finished polishing The Star and His Shadow Book 3, I was emotionally saturated because it was more than 100 emotionally heavy chapters.
As someone who immerses herself into what she writes—who puts herself in her characters’ shoes and imagines how they feel/think—it drained me.
For a time, I couldn’t connect to what I wrote months ago. It scared me. Made me doubt the chapters I once felt so strongly about. And made me pause uploading.
After days of stepping aside, I finally had the courage to read what I uploaded and realized, I did the right thing after all. The emotions are still there. I can still feel them. And I hope you do, too.
We are now about 30% into book 2 and I promise to upload more in the coming days.
Thank you so much for staying with Seo Joon and Soo Jin in this journey.
I’ve been writing nonstop for over three months.
When I finished polishing half of my PSJ Book 3, I hit a kind of emotional saturation I didn’t know how to name at first. Suddenly, I couldn’t access the same emotional register I had when I was writing Book 2. And because of that, I couldn’t bring myself to publish chapters that were already finished.
I felt… lost.
And underneath that, I was scared.
If I couldn’t feel the emotions anymore — the ones that are supposed to seep through the chapters — would my readers feel them either?
For a while, my world tilted. Writing was what carried me through dark days. Writing made me feel alive again. And then one day, I was just… numb.
That fear crept in quietly:
What if I can’t feel anymore?
What if the instinct that’s always guided me is gone?
What happens if writing stops — and what do I do then?
I’m not an experienced writer by any formal measure. I’ve always relied on instinct. On emotion. On the belief that stories should feel real, human — full of joy, sorrow, hope, fear. I write to feel. I write to survive.
So when I couldn’t feel anything, I panicked.
Instead of forcing it, I did something different. With my eyes closed, I stepped away from the PSJ story for a moment and picked up another one I’d been sitting on for months.
Slowly, something shifted.
I started to feel again.
And this time, I decided to change one thing:
If a chapter feels right now, I publish it now. I don’t hoard it. I don’t overanalyze it later. I trust the moment it came from.
So here I am — publishing a new book.
No rigid outline.
No clear ending yet.
Just instinct. The same way I’ve always written.
Maybe this is what listening to yourself looks like.
Maybe this is what moving forward feels like.
Either way, I’m here. And I’m writing again.
The Star and His Shadow Book 1 is complete!
But Seo Joon and Soo Jin’s story is far from over :)
Some book 2 chapters are out now. Please read them to continue with SJ and SJ story :)
First chapter of The Star and His Shadow Book 2 is out! :)