Entry 37 - final entry?:

13 November 2004.

Aurora.

It has been a long time. Apparently Aurora was created first on 13 December 2003, although I believe that not much was written until January. Thus there has been eleven or twelve months spent on this novel. About 510 pages, 125 thousand words apparently, have been written, and therefore a little over three pages per day has been achieved overall, so the aim from the start of the novel has been achieved and exceeded. 

Today, on 13th November 2004, I believe Aurora is completely finished. It has yet to be revised at least once more to check for mistakes and make final small revisions, but it is already in a high state of editing and essentially finished, all in the present tense. 

It is an incredible sense of achievement to have a novel sitting here in front of me, all mine.