The Last ChapterThis evening, at the writers’ workshop, the last chapter of my magnum opus was presented and critiqued. It is such a relief to have got the whole of the thing down, albeit in raw form. Now the polishing begins in earnest. For, to be a little Churchillian, this is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning. I began longer ago than I care to remember but I have a hard and fast deadline before me and so I’ll just have to knuckle down, especially over the summer holidays…