83,778 words

That is my book. In its current form, anyway. I'll be fiddling with it until I turn it into the program office, then I'll put it away for a bit and come back for rewrites, but it's a book. It has a beginning, middle, and end. Loose ends tie up. There's an arc.

I'm completely zonked and elated.

It's been approved as my creative thesis. I will soon be, in Gwenda's words, a Mistress of the Fine Arts. YES!