The Goblin Emperor: first draft finished

108,600 words, and the draft is done except for that troublesome scene in the middle.

Now, this is a first draft, which means it still needs a lot of work. The worldbuilding is patchy in places and drafty in others, I suspect the pacing of one of the subplots is completely fubar, and the language is not as consistent as I would like it to be.

But these are all problems which can be fixed; in point of fact, they're what a second draft is for. And doubtless, my editor and my valiant beta readers,...