Type “foreward” into the fanfiction.net dictionary and you get something along the lines of “The van; the front.” Type it correctly, as “foreword” and something like “A preface,” or “a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book” pops up. No joke. And yet it still doesn’t help me in writing something to “foreword” what I have learned, experienced, and bitched about during the process of writing TDA. I guess I should say something like “Steve was really cool about deadlines and the only one who followed them,” or “Sex with Macintyre is only good when drunk or high,” or something else that’s really stupid. The truth is, I’m speechless. I can’t think of a single phrase that can accurately describe what I have gone through. Jeeves doesn’t help me either; he just babbles on about some guy named Schwartz. Google just plugs a magazine. And I’m not even touching MSN or Lycos.

All others aside, the only thing I can think of is: “Thank you. Thank you, Macintyre, for giving me the opportunity to attempt to realize your grand vision. Thank you, Zacharus, for teaching me things about literature and writing that I had no prior knowledge of. Thank you, both of you, for not being too hard on me whenever I screwed something up. Thank you, faithful supporters, for you are appreciated greatly, possibly more than the actual work itself. Thank you.”

Yes, that will do nicely.