Shinerdrinker: Blog

Okay, lemme try to bring everyone up to date.

First.

I began writing this story mainly because I wanted to see if I could. I can, and if I really wanted to try, I could monetize this and really maybe earn several dollars a year, calling myself an author.

Second.

I understand that many have joined me on this journey. I thank all of you. I mean, that is why I spend nearly all my free time working on making this story the best I possibly can. I'm not a real author, whatever that might be, but I am trying to teach myself how to become one. I understand that criticism comes with the territory. Laz created a usable means for authors to receive that criticism. Some of it hurts. But the vast majority is good, and in many cases, great!

But others use these tools to simply throw stones at those of us who are, rather than try on their own. Fine. But when your vitriol becomes aimed at others who are on the journey. I can't stand by while that happens.

I decided to block someone I know has been reading along almost since the beginning because he was targeting others who were simply trying to defend me. I might keep that block permanent, I may not. I honestly don't know. I can be convinced to overturn it.

But maybe having some of you sit quietly in the corner while the rest of us enjoy the ride will help you learn to focus a little better and send the notes properly, rather than haphazardly.

Okay, that's been my time. I'm going back to see how Tim and his teammates are going to celebrate their state championship. Some of us will no longer be there. And unfortunately, they'll have to figure out a new way to find out how Tim was able to successfully help defend the world versus the alien occupiers... oh wait, did I write that out loud?

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

I've written about this before, but when I write, I'll open an extra tab on the browser and put on something to listen to in the background. When I first started this writing thang, I tried the local radio station, but the commercials easily distracted me, so I set up a list on YouTube and have been using it ever since. I pick the tunes, and don't listen to anything but the original or a remixed version of something from my raving years.

Recently, I've gone down the remixes and extended versions of popular hits. If you genuinely enjoy the songs, this is a great way to experience them.

So picture this, I'm in my writing room. I've got the overhead lights off and the only illumination is the petrifying blankness of an empty page on LibreOffice Writer. Just me, the tunes from the background tabs, and occasionally, whenever the song commands it, like the one I had last night. I'll light a couple of mood candles.

I found a channel that has become an excellent respite, and I decided to create a list based solely on it. It is named 'Euphoric Haggis - Music Soothes the Soul,' a great name that caught my attention first. Then I went down the back list and squealed several times, like a teenage girl getting their first real Valentine's Day present.

For about the fifteenth time since I found it, I've been looping the latest song posted by Pink Floyd, "Welcome to the Machine." I just blew out the candles I had going beside the monitor, and I'm already becoming disgusted with myself.

Mainly because the damned LibreOffice Writer blank page is still taunting me.

I lost a whole damn night. But then again, I did enjoy myself, so the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. John Lennon was right.

Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that the gummies I tried kicked in somewhere around the third time I replayed this song.

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Okay, just announcing that the latest chapter of Mayhem in a Pill has been sent to the editors and should be posted to storiesonline by early in the week.

Just letting y'all know.

--Shinerdrinker

Here's a little something about me for y'all to comprehend... I am a lover of science fiction and fantasy. I'd be willing to guess I ain't alone in that, simply deducing from many of the stories on this website!

But my wife decided she finally wanted Disney+. It was something we simply didn't see the need for, but now my wife said she wanted to see the new Star Wars shows. Well, this was about a month and a half ago, and we finally finished Andor. Now that was fun!

Well, a few nights ago, I was browsing YouTube and stumbled upon the scene in the second season where Mon Mothma dances at her daughter's wedding, having a cathartic moment and letting loose, as if no one is watching. In reality, she is dancing because she has decided to stop pussy-footing around and show the Empire what she really thinks of them. She is enjoying her last dance in this world, she's known her entire life. It's a fantastic scene.

But I digress...

I found a special edit on YouTube from the creators of Andor, which is a remixed version of Mon Mothma dancing in a circle. And the awesome dance track with it works wonderfully! It is an entire hour of that song replaying over and over again, just like the old raves from back in my college days. Well, sometimes the music just repeated, or the superfluous chemical digested back then just made it seem that way. But I digress...

If you liked that scene from the show, search for it on YouTube and enjoy. It's got just the right beat for me to do some nice writing. So lovely in fact, I'll be sending the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill on to the editors for them later this week. So you lucky people should be getting access to the next chapter early next week. Isn't that great?

Alright, now, Mon shake what yo mama gave ya!!!!

-- Shinerdrinker

So I did it again. I stayed up all night rereading a story from the past, and it has once again given me the proper amount of inspiration to continue writing rather than taking the weekend off to be with the family. But it's all cool since the wifey said she didn't feel like schlepping over to the grandkids anyway.

Woo hoo! But I'll have to do something nice for her, like I guess I'll have to throw her a little pickle tickle tonight. Tee hee.

Okay, enough of all that. The reason for this update. The real motivation that hit late last night, whilst downloading the varied gig o' MILF porn, I tripped across the download count of Mayhem in a Pill, since I had not been focusing on it too much recently. Lo and behold, we're approximately 500 downloads short of reaching a fairly significant milestone of 1.3 million total downloads for the entire story.

In theory, we could reach that goal in a week with the story as written. Or I could get off my fat ass, post the next chapter, and crush that goal in an hour or so! Not really doable, but a nice thought. 1.3 million. Not too shabby, if you ask me!

That's a whole lawt of words being written by me, and read by you people from all over the world. It's a bit awe-inspiring. I like to think my audience here on Storiesonline is a bit above the world's average in intelligence, so I kinda feel bad about me being responsible for keeping our collective intelligence away from working on real problems and transfixed on a former fat kid living a high school dream as a sports super hero!

So... long story short. I'm a writing today rather than leaving the Chateau de' Shiner to see the kids' kids. Woo hoo! Double win for me and especially for all of you lovely people who've pushed the download counter to nearly 1.3 million reads.

Sincerely, thanks.

I hope to keep the story interesting enough for you guys to continue on this journey with me. Even if some of you don't like it, and continue reading it anyway. Maybe I'm slowly becoming the new Howard Stern! Eww, no thank you. I had long hair for like a year early on in middle school. I didn't like it, but I was rebelling, so I chose that as the battlefield. Damn, I used to be dumb.

Oh well, back to the word processor!

--Shinerdrinker