Cyber Monday is getting closer and I am starting to get anxious. I really want to have 'Stone City' ready for publishing by then but my graphic artist is going out of country on a vacation the first of November. I do not begrudge her the vacation, everyone should vacation when they have the opportunity. It just adds to the pressure of my self inflicted deadline.
My husband/ editor has dropped the ball as well. We took a mini vacation to Missouri. The guys camped in the woods, ate meat cooked on open fires or in smokers, didn't bathe unless it was in the river, fished, told stories around the campfire, and drank too much. If he had down time, he was going to work on editing the last chapters of 'Stone City', didn't happen and that didn't surprise me.
I stayed with one of the wives. They live 10 miles from the nearest town which is a wide spot in the road with a post office and a convienance store. 15 miles from there to the next larger town boasting a Walmart and a couple of hotels, another 15 -20 miles is a city of nearly 175,000 people. The point being, when it was dark outside, it was freakin' DARK! Not much light pollution out in the boondocks. This is what I wanted. The dark of night to see and enjoy the stars, the daytime quiet where you could hear the leaves falling in the forest. I wanted to re-connect with the primitivness, to feel the solitude my colonist would experience on their new, uninhabited planet. To re-experience the since of wonder which comes from looking into the star-filled night sky as you contemplate the mind boggling size of the universe and its millions upon millions of stars and their orbiting planets.