My book is in for editing at last…

~ Posted 8 January 2017 ~
 
On Friday last week, I finally handed in the remainder of my (self-edited) Manuscript to my Logotherapy trainer, Dr Teria Shantall, who is so kindly going to go through it for me and advise of any more editing changes. 
 
I have also sent a copy of the manuscript to my sister to read through, because I would love to have her honest opinion on how I’ve shared and honoured our lives in it, because, with only 11 months’ difference in age between us, we pretty much shared those awful and nightmarish days and nights of abuse with each other and we became our only best friends during the early years as a result.
 
It still feels so surreal that I have come this far with my book (our book), and that someday it might actually be published. 
 
Soon I will start a fund-raising campaign, to try and raise funds for the publishing.  If anyone can help me raise funds, I’d be so grateful, but as soon as I have set up my own campaign, I will let you all know and ask that you’d share the details of it for me.
 
I believed in this book long before I even began to write it, and I have somehow always known that it was the true purpose for my life. 
 
I pray it will assist many in overcoming the devastating lifelong effects of child abuse and also help to stop abusers and protect the emotional integrity and innocence of little children, through the important messages that I have shared so openly in it from my own life struggles as an adult survivor of child abuse, and my ongoing work to overcome and rise above what my abusers did to me.
 
This weekend, I have so far spent working on formatting the manuscript and today I hope to be able to work out how to use the feature in the Word program, to create a “Table of Contents”…
 
I don’t have a clue, but since a friend told me that this is possible, I am going to do my best to try and work it out for myself to make things easier as further editing may be necessary later on and my Table of Contents is huge and therefore, a whole lot of work to keep updated with adjustments after every editing change in the book.   
 
I believe that something like this can also be done for “Referencing”… ?
 
It’s times like these that I wish I had someone close by to show me how, but I guess I will work it out if I keep at it… I hope.
 
From next week, I will need to start catching up on my office work which is now so far behind that it’s quite scary!  So if I am still absent on my blog for a while, this will be why.
 
I also have a client who I need to concentrate my time on and I am always grateful for all that I learn through working with others.
 
Thank you for sharing my life journey with me.
 
With love to the world out there
~ Pana