Saying So Long

I just finished a fourteen year relationship with A Dragon's Tale by completing Book III - Mishmakon, The Dragon King. It was a very complicated emotional experience for me. Much akin to the feelings I had when my Lab of thirteen years died. I had been dragging my feet finishing the book and finally one of my closest friends and a downright great editor said, "You don't want to say goodbye, that's why it's not finished."
She was right on. A half a box of Kleenex and two undisturbed mornings that began at 3am each time and the book was finished. It's a bitch when you have to tell your friends your eyes are swollen because of allergies. Yeah well, a guy thing I guess. Anyway, I have started on the first book of the next Trilogy, a new puppy, playful and fun. I'll enjoy the journey and the growing up phase and at some point will again have to say...so long. Such is the circle of life.