Little Big Things

In my last post some two years ago(!), I had said that I would be interested in taking on a large-scale historical narrative for my next project. However, although the idea's somewhere in the back of my head, and I did start reading up on the things I wanted to say, the words themselves just never materialized. Perhaps that project, still on the back burner, might come back; or perhaps it was simply not meant to be. Since I run this blog just for fun, I've learned to never force myself to produce something just for the sake of generating content; like an artist, I know I can't produce a post I'd be proud of if I'm not fully into it. And from that perspective, it's interesting that the thing that has  finally managed to inspire me to write once again, after two years of silence, is itself focused on the lives of artists. Based on a webtoon by Seo Ireh and Namon, the 2024 Korean drama,  Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born  [hereafter " Jeongnyeon "   or "t...