I'll admit

This really wasn't how I expected to handle this blog. While presented with humble beginnings and wacky nonsensical gibberish about communicating with cats or what have you, now I find some of the nonsense distracting and a strain to do.

I've never been much of a "funny man" outside of the typical sarcastic or ironic remarks I am no comedian. Why I ever try I'll never know.

But I do apologize if some of my less then respectable side has to mesh with a sense of necessity to post something, anything.

Worse off, I thought I could write a story and post sections of it every other day. That was a big mistake. Something we're still feeling I'm afraid to say. And while granted it was a fun experiment I killed it off once the pressure and need for better more literate ranges were required to delivery in words what my mind held.

I know I hate these kind of posts too. I've made several of them over the year the blog has been around. It is never easy (at least for me) to explain what I feel is the right thing to do and what I feel compelled to do. That is most certainly why my readers receive either this, a review, or that gibberish we mentioned earlier.

Anyways I know I went five days without a post again. I had nothing to say. Nothing I wanted to say anyways.

But I may as well take this time to inform everyone what my intentions are in the coming weeks.

My plan moving forward here is to begin posting the last half (or whatever we call it) section of the original story, A Vacant World. Before I do that I'm sure you'll wish to hear where the editing is at.

Well I won't give you a percentage this time (only because I really didn't calculate it yet) I will say that I've began recently working on the unforeseen but aforementioned work. Something I'm sure will take many of you by surprise. Why you may ask did it take me a month to just begin working on editing something everyone is waiting for?

The answer is both simple and unfortunate. Quite honestly, I broke the unedited version (the blog version). Not intentionally but it just happened to work out that way. When I post the ending some of it may be new, odd, out of place, and or merely fractured without a seam to connect it.

Those would all be very good ways to describe the early work something I will refer to as Draft One. Draft One is readable and to some extent understandable. But it is lacking much detail and the aforementioned time I didn't really give it when it was required.

Which leads me to why I was so hesitant to jump editing from page one to page fifty. Truthfully I've known that the story was missing certain key elements that I planted but never fertilized. With my insisting on going back to "fix it" I figured now (a year late and a dollar short) I could retrofit everything all at once and hopefully congeal the entire project to where I originally thought/wanted/needed it to be.

I've actually mentioned this before so I do apologize for the repeat.

With the new enchantments and band aids I could now begin to tie certain loose strings, missing strings, or altogether torn strings together. Thus my reasoning for the convoluted means to and end regarding the editing process. It was extremely useful believe me.

Unto the most important news regarding this matter and hopefully the last time I will have to speak of it till it is finished and off my shoulders.

My (new) time frame jumped ever so slightly into the future. I know I sorta dropped the ball there but we're looking at a Mid July release now. Should be almost guaranteed accurate but if for some case it isn't exact it won't be far off. I'm almost ninety nine percent sure I will deliver it in July.

As for the "special edition" aka the redraft aka Draft Two?

I will be publishing that through Amazon more then likely sometime following the release of the story on this blog. I will update price/time in a future update but for now I haven't exchanged any plans yet. I'd like everyone to read it as it was not only a laboring pain but a more fleshed out vision. So don't expect it to cost more then a pittance or so (in case I'm not clearly thinking or writing right now read this: It won't cost much).

I hope everyone reading this, or reading some of this understands how hard I've tried to balance both worlds. I'm not asking for pity as this was a fun task, it was also nerve wrecking once I realized what I was doing. And I hope my time investment won't be an utter failure to those most loyal followers. It is my wish that this story can attract more folks and allow me to bring another (but less time consuming) story to the world soon.

As always, I thank you for reading;

-Rossini