Slowly closing

I can't believe it has been over a month since I got a chapter up for Nothing of Note - such a struggle to close this tale. My dear old curmudgeonly Bilbo doesn't seem to want to ever stop, but I must pull on his reins or I'll never have time to write anything *else*... Thankfully, the next-to-last one is now up. This being the first time I've ever written anything so huge, have you other serial writers found this to be the way it goes, or do your characters quietly accede to their time being over? (for now) -

And Lin, you don't count - Boromir *lives in your house* for pity's sake...