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This is Gonna Be a Good Day…if Murphy Be Willing

September 23, 2011 By: Patricia

I’ve been finishing up the final edit on my novel for a week and a half and it shouldn’t have taken this long. But you know how Murphy responds to people with deadlines. He throws every obstacle, complication, and time waster he can think of in the hopes he can derail our projects.

I’ve dealt with the tree people because our apple tree had fire blight, the doctor because my cat bit me and the injury was serious enough to require an antibiotic, ice packs because my hand was swollen and throbbed for two days, and plumbers because of a major leaky faucet in my kitchen that began to leak under the sink as well.

Even so, I can finish the editing today and submit my manuscript if nothing else goes wrong.

So I offered Murphy a chocolate bar from my secret stash and sort of hinted how bad it would be if the cat bit him. I’m kind of hoping he’s done here and has moved on. But you know how it goes…anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Which made me almost afraid to title this post This is Gonna Be a Good Day. I did it anyway. Little old risk-taker me.

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Comments

  1. j. a. kazimer says

    September 23, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    Yeah Pat! Spit in Murphy’s face (Murphy that was totally Pat’s idea. I would never, ever dare ๐Ÿ™‚

    I hope the hand is healing well and that Kathie is properly apologetic. Congrats on the last edits!

  2. L. Diane Wolfe says

    September 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    That’s a great attitude! We don’t always get what we want but we usually get what we expect.

  3. Patricia Stoltey says

    September 23, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    Thanks, Donna — I’m keeping my fingers crossed. So far, all is well.

  4. Patricia Stoltey says

    September 23, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    I’m hearing Blogger is not letting some visitors leave comments. Bad Blogger!

  5. irishoma says

    September 23, 2011 at 10:41 am

    Hi Patricia,
    Wow! You’ve had a stretch of bad luck. Hope it’s behind you so you can concentrate on the submission process.

    Donna v.

  6. Patricia Stoltey says

    September 23, 2011 at 9:10 am

    Thanks, Margot and Kathryn — now begins the much-loved submission process–this final editing was my own final editing phase. We’ll see what happens next.

    Alex — Oh, dear. Did that happen to you? I’m not sure the five-second rule applies when the toast has jelly on it.

    Dean — That’s exactly what I’ve been telling myself. There’s almost always a rainbow right after the storm. ๐Ÿ™‚

  7. Dean K Miller says

    September 23, 2011 at 7:48 am

    Somewhere in all of this hides a little gem that you’ll find when you need to. Distractions surely mean you are on the right path though, otherwise they wouldn’t feel so darned distracting!

    Keep at it…you’ll get there.

  8. Alex J. Cavanaugh says

    September 23, 2011 at 7:22 am

    Ask Murphy how he’d feel if his jelly toast landed jelly side down on the carpet!

  9. Kathryn Elliott says

    September 23, 2011 at 7:13 am

    Murphy is never a welcome visitor in my house! Send him packing! Looking forward to your book.

  10. Margot Kinberg says

    September 23, 2011 at 6:21 am

    Pat – Sounds as though you’ve had quite the visit from Murphy! I hope you’ll be free of those complications now, and I look forward to reading your novel!

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read Moreโ€ฆ

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