The End is only the beginning

I did it!

I finished the first draft of the novel I’ve been working all year long!

Yesterday morning, I was able to write the famous “THE END” at the bottom of the manuscript!

Despite being a writer and working with words, this time words fail me to express my emotions. I can tell you it was a mixture of happiness, wonderment, exhilaration, terror, relief, and disbelief as something I have been working so hard for had finally come to pass, but this description is not even close to what I felt...