“Writing,” to steal a quote from Thomas Edison, “is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” That’s definitely true of the book I’m currently preparing for publication. I started work on this book, I’m ashamed to say, thirty-one years ago. (I drafted the outline for it — which would be the one-percent inspiration part — when I was only sixteen years old.) So, by either account, this project — when it was originally conceived, or when I actually began working on the manuscript — was my first-ever writing endeavor. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve “read” it (i.e. edited it) from cover to cover. You would think it would be polished by now. And I DID think I had it polished. Or close to it, anyway..

However, I felt so strongly about another project that I had begun — Anchor, links to which can be found on the Publications page of this website — that I decided to shelve this nearly-perfected project until I got the other one published.

So, in August of this year, I started a “read” of this, my first and nearly-perfected project, figuring one or two quick read-throughs and it would be ready to publish. As stated, I began in August of last year…and didn’t finish that read until tonight. If anyone had told me I would make multiple changes in almost every paragraph, I would have told them they were crazy — because it was as near perfect as it possibly could be. BWAA-HA-HA!!!