The Profile of a Cupcake

Hello All. Here I am continuing my journey to be purposeful and daring in my life. The goal here is to blog about once a week, but I am a busy kid so don't hold me to it too seriously. Anyway,I have done some stuff this week, and unfortunately very little of it has been writing. Every time I look at my story I get tired. I don't know. Maybe it is just poor timing, maybe I have just been lacking inspiration. Maybe it is hard for me to continue to work on a book that I am pretty sure is going to go nowhere. Lately I have been trying to do other things to inspire me.  One thing I have been doing is reading. I have joined a book club. I hope that reading other people stuff will help me to be more creative in my own. Another thing that I have been doing is making a purposeful effort to get inspired by music. I have taken to listening to film scores, or other music without words, and when that doesn’t work I have found folk pop to be very good too. Mel-Cat has been rocking this group called The Civil Wars that she scooped off of Veronica Roth’s blog. If you don’t know who that is, I would check her out. She is the writer of the Divergent  book series. It is good. Anyway, I am really fond of the The Civil Wars station on Pandora.  I have started to find songs that make me feel  good and smart and just make me feel like writing.  I recommend it. It  gives good images, unfortunate for me only a few have been relevant to my current stories.

Anyway, lets talk about things that went well this week. Number one: My Art. I have decided to seek instruction for my drawing instead of drawing the same ugly stuff over and over and hoping that someday I will randomly, magically  improve. I went online and started looking at tutorials and pictures  and  doing what works. I just wish now that I hadn’t wasted so much of my sketchbook doing the other stuff.  I started with profiles. I am currently practicing that and I have some to show you. ^_^

Another thing I have moved up on is my knitting. I have taken on the task of those double  pointed needles that you use to make tubes. They are not as intense as they seem. I haven’t actually made anything at all yet, just done some practice and sure enough there was a tube. I was pumped.  Also, I stepped things up on the baking front. I have started to get bored with the boxed cupcake mixes and started to liven them up . This month I made chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter butter-cream. The only thing that I really innovated here was the butter-cream. I got the recipe off the net and when I  was done I tasted it and it tasted just like sugar. So I vamped up the portion of peanut butter and they were perfect. Hardcore perfect. I took sexy pictures of them on my phone. I have to think of something to do next time. I am running out of cheap ideas. Baking is an expensive hobby.

Anyway. Stay tuned folks. I hope to actually get some writing done this week. I have orientation for my new summer job and I know from last year that I will have a lot of down time. I will bring my computer and try to write then. That’s all I got people. I will catch you next week.