My trip ends... my work resumes.

Photo by Judi Getch 9/24/2017 ©

One of the things I love to do is fly overnight.  I never sleep, but watch the towns and cities that are illuminated below in the total darkness.   Who are these people who inhabit this place?  Why do they choose to live here?  Some towns are so isolated... the nearest lit town miles and miles away.  Did they grow up here, meet the love of their life, marry and live out their days in this place?  All great story lines... what would it be like to live a year in one of these towns?  To be submerged in their way of life?

As we approached home, I watched the starlit sky turn a dark purple then a cerulean blue with the rosy colors of dawn appearing slowly on the horizon. Finally, the sun popped up on fire.  As my latest book says, "Jamie loved this time of day - just before sunrise when the world belonged to her, rosy in color signifying a new beginning and another chance to make things right.  She loved the first but struggled with the second."  Think she was channeling my thoughts as I flew home? :-)   

I had planned on editing much if not all of my manuscript this trip, but managed only two chapters... too much fun, too much to see and do, and maybe too much wine.  But I did a lot of people watching, listening to conversations and talking to new people.  The trip was awesome... seems like a dream now.  Even winging my way home, I was talking to a man from Malaysia who was sitting near me. He had many questions about the United States.

Once I readjust to my time zone, I'll dig into the editing once again.  My plan is to finish it completely in 4-6 weeks and submit the manuscript to a publisher.  I'm close, but being a Type A personality, I'll never be satisfied with it :-(  

I have two more completed manuscripts to work on after this one is completed... never a dull moment.

Hope you all are writing and filling your day creating your very important characters in their oh so important places solving their seemingly unsurmountable problems... I am!

Keep striving,
Till, 
Judi

And BTW, I did find a group of authors/writers not too far away from me.  They currently don't have a writers group, but it was nice to meet and talk shop with them.