“Do or do not, there is no try.”

If you know who said that, well done, you’re a sci-fi geek. I like the quote — I like its mean­ing — but it’s not entirely accu­rate. I’d like to live by it, but I don’t, I’d like to like the pre­quel movies more than I do, but that’s impos­si­ble, and I’d like to raise an X-Wing out of a shitty swamp, but I can’t. So, putting aside the things I know I can’t do right now, I’ll sim­ply men­tion some of the things I am doing.

First off, I’m going to take part in Nick Enlowe’s NPI. I don’t think I took part in the last one, or I did and failed so mis­er­ably that I needed to block out the mem­ory.  It will be up and down, as Sep­tem­ber is the month Boy starts up school again, my work sched­ule changes, and we’re vis­it­ing fam­ily in Canada… so, that will be inter­est­ing. I’ll do the best I can con­sid­er­ing all I can. Golden.

Sec­ondly, I’m putting together May 5 & The Assas­sin for an e-book pub­li­ca­tion. Call it the com­plete series, a 2nd edi­tion, I’m not sure what. But I am putting together all 15 episodes, edit­ing and clean­ing them up and releas­ing it in what a cinephile would call a Director’s Cut. Or, an Author’s Cut I guess. I’m tak­ing my time to make sure they all work as one, and the bonus of not hav­ing a time-constraint will allow me to add some parts of the story I wasn’t entirely happy with. I’m not sure whether to release through Ama­zon Kin­dle or Smash­words, but I’m look­ing into the entire process.

Hope­fully when I release it, there will be enough inter­est to war­rant the sec­ond going over — a few pur­chases at least. I think I may also add some art­work and images I cre­ated for the series in the e-pub, though I don’t even know how that works.

Lastly, I’m doing what I can to fin­ish a short story I started a cou­ple of months back. Noth­ing huge, noth­ing spe­cial, but some­thing that’s help­ing me get through a few cre­ative rings of fire. Calm­ing down my imag­i­na­tion if you will, or rather, let­ting it stay in one place long enough for me to whack it over the head and drag the ideas back to my cave.

Any­way, that’s about it for now. Just a drop in, a pop out. I’m done, though hope­fully not for another month!