The End: reflections on wrapping a draft

Monday night I wrote the words "The End" on a manuscript I have been working on steadily for roughly three years. I should be ecstatic, right?

Photo credit: deegolden from morguefile.com Instead I'm scratching my head about why it took me so freaking long when other people can draft an entire book in a matter of weeks.

My process is such, however, that my "first draft" is more like a NaNo participant's fourth draft. It's not a mess or full of holes. Though I'm an organic (ak...