I'm not #amwriting but I can make a mean cupcake...

ACTUALLY, I happen to think my spur-of-the-moment, procrastinator-friendly, multicolor cupcakes are quite friendly-looking and not mean at all.

But I digress...

We'll make this post about goals. Achieving and not achieving them.

My goal in life is to become a published author and write till I die. True Vonnegutess style, if you will. I refuse to give up if it takes me a hundred failed manuscripts.

UNCOMMONLY COMMON isn't a fail though. I've had seven rejections from about ten queries. Tomorrow I'm going to send out my shiny new query to a couple agents to see if maybe I was not explaining the awesomeness that is my poor Casper Common's story.

To ease rejection, I've been working on a new manuscript, THE WOODS. It's easier and harder at the same time. I keep trying to think it out, but it's not like when I would think of UNCOMMONLY COMMON. I always said it felt like I was watching Casper through a fish bowl. Yeah, ultimately I had control (I can catch and toss a tank fish if I want to), but Casper was doing his own thing. THE WOODS I find myself procrastinating on. I actually downloaded the Scrivener trial mostly so I could start the manuscript over (from 16K already written) and try new things.

Point is... I have many goals. I now want to see THE WOODS take shape like UNCOMMONLY COMMON did in my head. I want UNCOMMONLY COMMON to get published, because it's worth it. But sometimes... sometimes my goals are simpler.

For example, I wanted to make rainbow cupcakes. Ever since I StumbleUpon-ed them a month ago.

Today, TLC's Cupcake Girls came on just as I sat down to outline THE WOODS again, this time from separate characters' POV, and I thought, why am I waiting for someone to make these cupcakes with me? Do I or do I not know how to bake a scratch recipe? (I do.) And that was that. I got up and found the cookbook.

However, unforeseen circumstances being what they are, I had to compromise. There wasn't enough sugar for a full cake. It's perfect actually because I have no one to eat these cupcakes when I'm done so it made sense to simply one-third the smallest recipe (and show my head I still know some badass math). BUT not having a lot of batter meant I couldn't separate the batter into too many bags, thus making TRUE rainbow cupcakes out of the question.

Did I give up? NOoooooooo.

I made four of my favorite colors and decided to call them Mulicolor Cupcakes instead. Then I added green to the frosting because I felt bad for not using the green coloring in the batter.

In terms of goals:

Did I achieve making Rainbow Cupcakes? No, but I learned I have the capacity and capability to make Rainbow Cupcakes. Not only can I do it, but it'll be faster and easier when I do go for the full enchilada of Raibowosity in single-serve food terms.

Same thing goes with writing. Thus, I write on.