Some things never change

As much as I'd like them to. Who else does this? Does anyone else screw things up right at the good part? Seems to be a trend in my life.

I could be talking about things like baking apple pie. You know, get the perfect crust recipe and master it, have the most beautiful dish to form it into, slice the apples perfectly and not even take the entire day to do it, use real cinnamon ground by you, and the top crust fits perfectly; no trying to stretch edges to meet. Just perfect. The oven is preheated and the foil in on bottom so it doesn't ruin the oven when it starts bubbling over perfectly. Everything's good right. Then you trip on the rug and drop it on the floor before you make it to the oven.

But, I've never baked an apple pie. So, that's not really what I'm talking about.

Maybe something like writing the perfect manuscript for publication. The 1st draft is always shitty. I read that in a book otherwise I surely wouldn't have said it QUITE like that :) (Thanks K, lol) But this draft isn't half bad. You know you've got a good concept and it only needs grammatical editing and a little tweaking here and there before it seems ready to submit. One publisher (out of the 232 you sent it to) responds on your first query. All's good. And then you can't find the envelope to see which publisher responded. That would suck. But I haven't sent a query letter in years. So, that's not it either.

But I do pretty much hate when I mess things up when they start getting good. Whatever I'm talking about.