Shinerdrinker: Blog

Hello all.

Thanks to those of you who have written to let me know what they thought of the latest chapter of Mayhem in a Pill. I hate that it took so long, so I tried to make it a bit longer and overshot my wad by about eight or nine pages.

But in the midst of my celebrating and continuing the ever-evolving search for MILF porn, I discovered something on the interwebs I did not know was there. I found a video of the only football state championship won by my high school alma mater.

No, I wasn't on that team. That would be a perfect thing to have happen, wouldn't it?

No, I had already gradumated and was enjoying my time in college. But my little sister did let me know it was happening, and I remembered watching it on the TV in the dorm rec area. Luckily, no one begged to change the channel, which was always something worthy of a good argument. I remember several other guys who fluttered in to enjoy the end of the game. It was a good game with the good guys running an old school option running attack and beating one of the first pass-heavy high school teams in Texas football. The run and shoot offense was becoming all the rage in college ball, but there weren't many high schools yet running that offense. The following year changed that, and eventually, the pass-heavy variants were aplenty, and the run-heavy option went the way of the Dodo.

Needless to say, I just finished watching the game again, and it got the old writer's juices flowing again. I just turned off the LibreOffice Writer app after it started sweating profusely. (Not actually, but I killed it on new pages for the next chapter.) Well, it's a great starting point for the next chapter.

So, in the end, I just wanted to thank those of you who have written and those who haven't yet written for at least reading the latest chapter, and I hope to continue this story as long as it's necessary. For those who are worried, it doesn't mean every season will be as long as this. (I mean, I love football and writing football games, but damn, that's a lot of football!) I'm totally open to the idea of breaking up the next years of Mayhem's high school years into separate books, in fact, that is probably preferable, since the end product of these sessions of writer's blocks are turning into new stories I want to tell. Now that I have more of a handle on how to write them.

Thanks, and for those who didn't know, the new chapter was posted due to the plethora of good stories recently posted, which pushed it down the list of recently updated stories so quickly... It's there! Read it!

Tee Hee.

And now, back to the MILF porn for me!

--Shinerdrinker

Sorry about the wait. My type of writer's block didn't necessarily mean I wasn't writing anything. But it felt like all of it was just pure bullshit and read just like it. Pardon my French.

You will notice this is a much larger chapter than usual. The majority of my chapters are usually 15-18 pages typed on one and a half spaced lines. Why do I do it like that? I dunno.

But this chapter was easily nearly 35 pages long. It should probably get split into multiple pages per chapter, like many of my favorite stories have done with their posted chapters. I didn't do it on purpose, but here we are.

I could have cut it into two separate chapters, but I felt asking y'all to wait for the entire game... again... was probably a bit too much. I know I might have lost several readers already simply due to how long it has been since I last posted. Believe me, I hate that it took so long to post, too!

So, I've gone ahead and sent the chapter to Laz and the other site runners to post, and it should get there this morning. Read. Absorb. And of course, enjoy.

Lemme know what y'all think of the chapter, and if you have specific problems with it, please send a private message. There is no need to try to air out your bad mojo into the air, a dig?

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Edit: Okay, so apparently the chapter won't be divided into separate pages. Color me confused. Just make it hell long, I gots no problem with that though!

Hey there, kids. Would you like to hear some good news for a change?

Yeah, so would I.

Shut up, you!

Sorry. Please continue.

Oh, that's Tony. Don't mind him, he's just hanging out for a few days.

Hurry up and tell'em, genius!

I'm getting to it! I just wanted to let my score of fans know that the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill has been sent to the editors for them to do their amazing work of refining it into something resembling a finished project.

Yes, I've been dealing with a bad case of writer's block. I've pushed through.

Yeah, right. Pushed through.

Shut uppa your mouth!

Anywho, just giving y'all a heads up that the next chapter will be posted soon. How soon? Don't really know. I have to give the editors some time, actually, to read it and make the necessary corrections. That will take some time. But hopefully, it will be liked by all y'all.

Okay, so back to it! You should probably get started on the next one, so it don't take as long, dummy.

Shut uppa your mouth!

Sorry. Thanks for your patience!

--Shinerdrinker

So, what makes this update special? I suppose it's because it's been a while since I've updated y'all.

If you've watched the news, there has been a lot of trouble in my neck of the woods with precipitation. Or more to the point, too much rainfall. There is unbelievably sad news of the loss of over 80 lives due to flash flooding. The vitriol in the political world is somewhere I ain't going if I don't have to.

Luckily, all of that happened a bit further north than my neck of the woods. However, the news people tend to forget that this ain't even the first time for this to happen in the last damn month! About three weeks earlier, there was another set of hard rain clouds that decided to relieve themselves a wee bit closer to my neck of the woods. The news is forgetting, but that might be because there were only 11 lives lost on that particular late night and early morning.

Now that one was definitely closer to my neck of the woods. I'm talking reasonable walking distance from my neck of the woods. Luckily, me and mine got away from all of that with only a water-logged lawn. It was needed, but that's neither here nor there.

So I've been dealing with that, and while it ain't an excuse, it's just something I've been dealing with and have not been focusing on the next chapter all that much, I do admit. I'd write a few paragraphs, thoroughly flog myself with a wet noodle, then erase it all and then screw it and watch something on the boob tube. I have'nt even been in the mood for the MILF porn. I still searched for it, I mean, I'm not going to let my feelings get in the way of my true calling, would you?

So, what does that mean?

Well, I'm nearly there, and the crisis o'shitty writing is pretty much over. I think. I've been keeping more than usual lately. So I take that as a positive.

Just wanted to send some words, and I hope you and yours in your neck of the woods stay safe.

--Shinerdrinker

I'll be honest. Something hurt me in chapter 90. I thought the description of the video was a nice little piece of writing, and I was rather proud of that after I finished it that night. I still remember turning off the lights in my office and going to the bedroom with a funky, little lop-sided grin on my face. The wife even noticed, but then again, they see almost everything.

The hurt came from no one saying anything about it. So I guess I liked it a lot more than everyone else did. I didn't even get a simple, nice. But I digress.

I realized this last night while I forced myself into writing. The stuff I did still sucked, but I soon noticed that acknowledging my hurt over a well-written scene in a free story might be surreptitiously keeping me from thinking anything I've been writing is any good.

So, I talked to the wife. She pointed out that I had been in a mood ever since that chapter was posted, and no one had given any kudos for the nice scene. Then she apologized because she realized she had not either.

Well, no need to get into that. Y'all can use your imaginations for that one, but I did find myself this evening writing a bit of stuff much cleaner and not as stuffy or convoluted as what I've been producing for the last few weeks.

I'll never say something stupid like, "I'm past my bout of writer's block." Nope, I'll never do something like that. But I will say I made a decision about what was causing me some trouble, and now the chapter is coming into focus.

So I hope to be able to send this chapter, even though it is so behind schedule, to my editors and let them fix it for public consumption. Lord knows they are the only ones who can do so.

Okay, rant over. I'm going to bed and getting some rest for a full day of writing tomorrow.

Toodles.

--Shinerdrinker