That Puritan Is Off My Chest

Thursday I dressed in chic black swim trunks with a red racing stripe and my special writing tee shirt. Because I am a grossly fat robust gentleman, my shirt is so large that it takes two passes of the computer scanner to capture the whole picture on my chest:

No. I’m not superstitious and this is not a lucky shirt.

It’s just that the mystic charm of the picture on my chest strikes my fancy.

Nothing magic about it.

I just like it.

It’s my custom to wear this particular shirt on the day I finally send a manuscript off to the printer for my proof copy. That’s what I did at 3:30 Thursday afternoon with the 16^th Century Richard Rogers Diary ms that I’ve been editing for all these months.

It’s done.

Thanks be to God!

I’m glad to get this writing project off my chest so I can move on to my next one. Yes, another two editing projects await in my Work Pending file.

Shouldn’t say this about a book I hope to sell, but I’m sick of Richard Rogers!

Too spiritually helpful and up-beat for me to get my heart into.

The title of the 140 page book is Seeking A Settled Heart: The 16^th Century Diary Of Puritan Richard Rogers. In a week or ten days my proof copy will come back all bound and shiny from the printer. I expect it to look like this:

I always expect my work to come back looking something like that.

But I’m a realist.

I know all too well the truth illustrated in the old cartoon that hangs framed on my office wall, it features that famous writer, the owl Shoe :

I know exactly how Mr. Shoe feels.

Vision meeting reality disappoints.

However, another writer, Ms J.K. Rowling, had better watch out; my Puritan Richard Rogers book will become available before her next wimpy Harry Potter book hits the stores.

Do you think my book will sell as well as Ms Rowling’s books do?

No?

Well, neither do I.

But I’m pleased with it anyhow.

Glad to get it off my chest!