Jay E. Tria
Author

Jay E. Tria

  • Gon-Taeeul-The-King-Eternal-Monarch
    Drama Review

    The King: Eternal Hangover

    August 1, 2020 - By 

    It’s been 50 days since the finale of The King: Eternal Monarch and I am still here going back and forth the portal to the Kingdom of Corea. Usually 2 weeks of K-drama hangover is enough (or even too much) but this is TKEM, the drama that loved me back and helped me through pandemic anxiety. In this essay (lol) I try to process why I still live here. [Obviously spoilers everywhere. This is your first and only warning. Ok go]   Reconciling with Lee Minho. I came here because of Kim Goeun whom I loved since Goblin. When casting…

  • Music Dance and Lyrics - Writing Now

    He Bangs! She Bangs! New Book : Songs To Your Beat

    April 26, 2020 - By 

    I didn’t know what to do with Nino until we decided it’s time to move on. If you’ve known him since Songs Of Our Breakup, you’d know Nino didn’t have a good run with his last relationship. Not really spoiler alert: he messed up. He did try to win a heart back and tried a do-over, a prelude to which we see in the super short narrative of him flying to Singapore on a mission in the aptly titled That Thing Called Closure. From there I waited, I tried, I asked him how indeed can he succeed in this do-over.…

  • Writing Now

    Latest Book! Songs You Come Back To

    March 21, 2020 - By 

    Finafxxkingly! — how I’d sum up this book’s journey in one word. I first finished Son and Alice‘s story in 2016, with the goal of getting to The End before I started #romanceclassFlair. I have since released Ringo and Kris (You Out of Nowhere, 2017) and Ringo and Kris’s Summer Episode (Second Wave Summer anthology, 2018), but alas, Son needed more time and a looot of work. Didn’t think I’ll ever trash an entire finished draft and start from scratch but we don’t really think of those kinds of things do we cos gah que horror, but that’s exactly what…

  • Tourism

    Things to Do on a Fall Trip to Tokyo: Meiji Shrine, Harajuku, Cat Street

    February 2, 2019 - By 

    So I’ve had drafts on this series of Japan posts since the autumn trip happened on October 2017 haha. It’s a seven-day trip and who knows when I can finish writing about all seven days. I figured might as well shoot out what I already have, so here we are  🙂 For this trip to Japan I played happy and very willing tour guide to my sister. It was her first time in Japan and she was very excited and was also very easy to please. She had a list of things she wanted to see (which is basically why this…

  • Writing Now

    Surprise! Draft Excerpt: Yes to You

    December 12, 2018 - By 

    Sometimes you think you’re just going out and joining friends for a celebration over food and drinks and next thing you know you’re talking tropes and weddings and wow look at that, you’ve all signed up to deliver an anthology and there are receipts. There weren’t even that many drinks that night? Pretty sure we agreed on this project while sober. Which means it will totally happen right? Right. Wedding anthology. Fake dating. #romanceclass. Coming at ya 2019. (Happy juju and pompoms for encouragement are solicited and very much appreciated) No final anything on the output yet, but for now…

  • Writing Now

    Daily Grind #12: Donuts

    June 21, 2018 - By 

    Hello winter sun. Konnichiwa 7 o’clock. Come out but wrap up, baby it’s cold outside. You have places to go and no one you know. Your steps are dots and lines on a moving map. Make sure you can retrace them. Only you can know the way back, and your hands are cold. ‘I have donuts to find today,’ you say. ‘Old clothes to try, art to touch.’ The cafe is hidden among crooked paths, wandering men and weathered streets. But you find it. You settle in. The coffee is ok, the song they’re playing is better. It’s just the…