My Manuscript is Submitted
Whew! It’s surprising where we can “find” or “make” time when we have an urgent project to finish, isn’t it? By giving up pockets of time that I usually used for the garden, or on Saturday, for my housecleaning and reno projects, and even Sunday afternoon, I managed to get my manuscript reformatted, not just once, but twice, and out in the mail yesterday.
I thought I was done at 3:40 pm on Saturday, but then in evening checked the instructions again, discovered that it had to be in MS .doc format, and so did some more fine-tuning until 9 pm.
On Sunday morning I put it all on a USB stick. I was invited out to lunch with two wonderful senior ladies, but afterward I went to my office to print out the manuscript because Word Alive wants both a paper and a CD copy. There I found to my chagrin that once the file was on a different computer (in .doc format) the page length shifted, and the page numbers did not show up, plus the table of the index disappeared and the text was all one compressed paragraph!
Yikes! So I spent nearly 3 hours putting everything back in order again. Then I printed it, and burned a CD for them, and one for me to file, and took it home to package up neatly.
There’s a strong temptation to think that after all that work I deserve the prize, but my spirit knows that’s not how it works. It’s time to put it in the Lord’s hands, and wait to see how the judges will see it.