The BumbleRabbit Archives

Good morning, Erin. I’m sure you remember that I, in my last letter, mentioned I was now watching My Sibling’s Romance . Well, I’ve finally caught up with the rest of the audience, now that I’ve seen Episode 9—and…well, whatever else I could say, I am certainly invested.  But that’s not why I bring it up: this week featured the sibling pairs having to sing duets for…well, a prize. It was basically a karaoke contest for the cast. And if social media has not thrown the one pair’s performance of “Twenty-Five, Twenty-One” in your feed—FIND IT IMMEDIATELY. Maybe it won’t mean as much without knowing the people who are singing, but…well, I mean, you could watch the 20 hours of the show that come before this performance. That would help. Just bang it out over a weekend. Totally worth it just for that song. ANYWAY—as much as I know you’re always keen to know what I’m currently obsessed with, we’re here to talk about Doctor Slump , a show that you probably think is not at all in line with m...

Good morning, Erin. Having decided to refocus my efforts on going back to the shows I’ve let sit on the sideline for far too long, it seems my thoughts have also drifted over to a few of the myriad creative projects lingering in stasis in the back of my mind, looking over them with a pair of fresh eyes and wondering if any might be worth resurrecting.  One of these is a novel/novella I’ve been kicking around since I was an undergrad, the details of which I will spare you the burden of having to listen to—but I bring this particular one up because my new way of looking at the story is to structure it like I was writing a K-drama: I made a list of my favorite cliches and tropes and melodrama conventions, and I thought about how many of them I could use to help tell the story. And, believe it or not, it helped me rearrange and reorganize a lot of what I’d been playing with over the years, to the point where I might actually be able to make an outline of a complete plotline. At long la...