My story, "To Be an Emulator," is now over 9000 words long, and has been emailed to the other members of my group, and also submitted to the online Critters workshop. And it is still almost 48 hours before the end of the last class session. For someone used to finishing at the last minute, if not later, this is triumph!
My other feeling of achievement comes from the fact that, even as the class is ending, I have incorporated much of my course reading into my sense of self as a writer and as a person. And I have started reading Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind, a book I discovered through the class book review assignment and which I expect to use in my culminating essay.
It has been a great class, with a great group of classmates, and I look forward to running into you in writing if not in person.
Goodbye, and success! (If you really know what you're doing, luck still helps but it's less necessary.)