It's over! Or maybe it just started.

Well, I'm relieved it's December 1st, especially since I wasn't sure I would actually finish my story in the month of November. Glad I pushed on through. The last few chapters were the toughest, without question, probably because I wasn't sure how it was going to end until shortly before it ended.

It's remarkable how much my concept of the story changed over the course of writing it. If I want to address the original premise, I'm going to have to write a sequel, because this turned into a completely different story. Not that that's a bad thing. I think the only way I was able to write this story at all is by flowing with it rather than trying to control it.

Now I'm going to work on other stuff for a month or so, and come back and edit the story in January when I've had a little distance from it. Among other projects, a friend is willing to read my poetry manuscript, but I've got to have it done by the time she goes on vacation around Dec. 19th. So I may post some poems as I go through and work on it. It's been a few years since I looked at it - should be an interesting (and possibly ego-shredding) experience.