Getting Better
Well, wow, I got such a nice and encouraging comment from a stranger and oddly enough, it did help to make me feel better. My friends have been great but these past few days, the depression was even greater.
Michiko lent me a book entitled Reconnaisance and there was a short story/novella there entitled, Getting Better by Tara FT Sering. It’s all about surviving a hellish break-up and how it listed several tips which made me laugh outright because it’s also something I did. First, do a Felicity and chop off your hair. And I literally cut my long hair up to my ears, there were jokes about me being called “totoy” but what the heck, it did superficially made me feel better.
I was truly inspired by the novel and I’m hoping to come up with a novella of my own soon. I’ll be posting it online so as to have it all in one place.
It’s titled, TRIPLE PLAY and it centers around Cathleen Jade Gamelinda, a scriptwriter/segment producer of a hot sports lifestyle show. She has a long time boyfriend/informal fiancee and she’s also taking up executive classes for Bachelor of Laws. Things can’t get any better until in one week, her world blew to pieces. Her boyfriend dumps her to “prioritize the future”, her professor harrassed her and her TV show gets cancelled for a Koreanovela. While contemplating her fate at the MRT’s tracks, she receives a call, asking her to be the host of a new sports and gaming show! And now the real game is about to begin! Read the rest of this entry »
