We have a new ginger kitten brought in by Half Moon.

His name is Kyo, named after a favorite character of mine from the manga/anime Fruits Basket. (He would turn into a ginger cat when hugged by a person of the opposite sex!)

My Mom and I would feed Kyo in small portions of food that’s easy for a kitten to chew, swallow, and digest. One pack would be good for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

A writer spends most of the time in her head, with the characters she’s still getting to know and the world she’s trying to build. She stares at a blank screen or a blank page for a long while, thinking of how to construct a sentence or shifting through metaphorical file cards in her mind for another word for ‘said.’

Should you find yourself in a writing rut, dreams are brimming wells of bizarre and nonsensical material (some are sensible though and connected to reality) and inspiration for a story.

I wrote the text above from a writing prompt I did for myself last August 2020. I listed down words for each day of August, and then I would come up with something that should include those words.

It all started when I messaged an online friend whom I met through Arriane Serafico’s Respark your Goal challenge. I knew her as Ate Joyce Melegrito a.k.a. Cloudybazookas. I think it was around December 2017 when I asked her if she was going to Komiket: The Filipino Art and Komiks Market in Febuary 2018 as an exhibitor.

Because I wanted to be productive and answer the call of writing and illustrating a book this quarter of 2017, I decided to finally try my hand at self-publishing a book of short stories and prose.

For this week, I will be sharing a GIF on my step by step process on my artwork entitled Running.