I am done! The story is complete. Finished. And even I can appreciate that it is not bad. The loose ends are tied up. The plot has no holes. The characterizations are spot on. Good. My betas clap and cheer and Frodo at Cormallen could not have felt more proud of his accomplishment.

I make my weary way homeward, and my betas show me places where the text needs to be scoured. A word overused here. An infelicitous phrasing there. These sentences would be much more powerful in a different order.

I am changed. I will never be the same.