Until tonight, everything about this project had lived in a Google Doc on my Google Drive. I printed out a few chapters to get some feedback from my wife and it stirred a lot more emotions than I thought it would. It is something tangible, more concrete now than just a nebulous thing living in the cloud.
I am more determined than ever now to finish this up and be able to tell the entire story of these characters that I have grown to know so well as they go on this wonderful adventure in my head.