In other news...

It's finished, as much as a first draft can ever be considered finished. 136, 699 words over 464 pages, collected in little snippets here and there from March 30th until today. It's a testament to God, to the endurance He gives us and the truth that He will never ask too much--even if, for so long, I believed that writing a novel while staying home with two kids was absolutely too much. Eight months later, I'm convinced once again that He was right and I was wrong. You'd think we'd learn not to doubt these things, but hey, I got a novel out of it, didn't I? And now the real work begins...