The actress calls the book her “second pandemic baby.”

“Long time no see!”

she says in a video announcement (above).

Making a Scene by Constance Wu

Simon and Schuster

And the second baby I gave birth to is a book baby."

And it was crap.

Obnoxious, arrogant, all-over-the-place.

Depressed, I’d chuck the whole thing.

The “delete” button almost fell off my keyboard from overuse.

Sometimes it was only a sentence.

It was a practice I found healing and heartening.

My hope is that it will be helpful."