The first book in the saga is published! I am relieved and gratified! What was often a wonderfully exciting adventure in telling about Sara's early life became hard labor as I neared publication. Truly. Not as painful as actual childbirth, but much, much longer.
A debt that I feel I owed to Sara and her kin has been paid. I hope I did well by them. I gave it the best effort I could without spending more than the year-and-a-half writing, rewriting, researching, and asking everyone I knew well to assist in the process. Possibly writers with enormous talents find the process easier - possibly not. But it leads me to wonder, how long did it take Tolstoy to finish War and Peace?
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