Shinerdrinker: Blog

Okay, I've apparently hit a nerve.

I have no problem with continuing a story as a way to acknowledge your approval of an original story on SOL. Make sure to show the new story IS an acknowledgement of the original. Also, if possible, get approval to do the new story honoring the original.

Several people have written about my blog, saying essentially what I have said above.

My problem is with the 'author' "Adewale Bosun."

This author took the wonderful story "Island Mine" and posted it as his own on the Big River. Not a continuation. An exact copy of the same story. Bosun's only contribution is an AI-created cover.

That was the impetus for all of this from me. Taking one of the best stories on this great website and trying to profit from what was not yours.

If you wanted to write a continuation of "Island Mine," I completely understand the urge to do that, but you need permission. But since Refusenik has not been around, getting said permission is not a simple thing. So, you want to write a continuation using those characters, fine. But make it known that you are doing it without permission, but hoping to eventually get that permission.

It was "Island Mine" that lit my fire of fury. But a quick look through the rest of the offerings from this "author," and you see many other stories created by others on this website are being recreated for profit by someone else.

And what REALLY pisses me off, these stories have been making money for a little while.

--Shinerdrinker

This morning, I inserted myself into a quick discussion about an apparent plagiarist taking stories originally posted here and then being reposted by someone other than the original author over on the Big River website.

This evening, I got a message from someone named "fintinman_1." I'll place it here, as is.

what is the truth of you read a tale, that was never finished, or a tale that was done better then the author that started the tale. hell I wrote 19 published tales, that I gave up on because there was no real ending in sight. so gave up on them. it also allowed me to see that my writings were shit, in print. also that you can't whine, if someone makes it better. here's my advice. read warlords- scout, then read, argon's scout. tell me that BS, again.
it's not thift if you tell your tale.

Now here is my response...

"Huh?"

I'm guessing "fintinman_1" is talking about my extreme dislike of plagiarists attempting to profit from someone else's work.

I'm thinking I'm not alone in my thinking on this. Unfortunately, I forgot to save my well-worded response to him, but I did send it to "fintinman_1."

I also asked if he was maybe Refusenik under a different name. If that was the case, then apologies all around. However, that would also bring up the validity of the authorship of several other tales for sale under the name Adewale Bosun that seem to have originated from different authors here on SOL.

It is a quandary, for sure. What do y'all think?

--Shinerdrinker

Okay. The next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill has been sent for posting. It took everyone a little longer than usual since we are all out of practice due to my general laziness and not posting for so long. I apologize. But I also won't say that it'll never happen again, for life is a fickle thing.

It will probably come out in the middle of the Monday morning purge of submissions, so I'll probably write a few more blogs just to make sure that those who are following along know that there is a new chapter for their homework.

Also, here is another reminder about another story I posted for the Halloween contest that is now on my author page. It's called A Hollywood Secret. Lemme know what you think of it. I kinda dig it, and I think I might expand on it because that idea needs to be expanded!!

Alright, what else?

That's about it. Chapter 94 of Mayhem in a Pill is in the queue for posting for everybody later this morning. Check it out and lemme know what you think!

Okay, you can now go about all y'all's business.

--Shinerdrinker

Well, hello there. Long time no see.

I'll be honest. I've gone weeks without even opening "Mayhem in a Pill."

I just didn't want to go into that world for a while. So, I stayed out of it. I read a couple of other new-to-me stories and enjoyed them. I read a couple of not-so-new-to-me stories, and I still enjoy them.

It took a while, but I relit the fire that forces me to get off my lazy heiney and get into the game some more.

So I have officially sent the newest chapter of Mayhem in a Pill to my editing team. I hope all of you are still well, and I hope you continue to be well. Except for you know who. Don't worry, he knows of whom I'm speaking.

Oh, here's something you may not know, I took another shot at the Halloween contest because a weird dream was spread out on a buffet table for me and I thought it was a good ideer. I still think it is a good ideer and I have a nice place to put that ideer once I can get it thoroughly planned out. Take a gander over on my author page at "A Hollywood Secret."

So, beginning of next week, be on the lookout for the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill. At least, that's the plan. You know what happens to plans around here.

--Shinerdrinker

Nuts.
Oh well, I kinda tried.

What am I talking about, you might be asking? Well, the Halloween contest, of course. I didn't place in the top three, and my congratulations go out to those three writers and their stories. They are way better than mine. But I digress, for there is a light at the end of the tunnel and this time, it ain't no train.

This idea came about as a bit of a fever dream, and I went with it. Luckily, I still had a bit of a fever when I finished it. I now know a way to continue down this path, and it differs from the original idea I had for lighting the firecracker.

Oh, wait a second, I might have to explain myself a bit here. I submitted an entry in this year's Halloween writing contest. I've done it before, and I'll probably try it again, but I admit I'm not really a Halloween kind of person. So I do it to take myself out of my comfort zone for a bit.

I submitted "A Hollywood Secret."

I'm openly asking my score of fans to go ahead and read it for yourselves, and I'd love to hear what you guys think of it. Let's see if maybe some of you can find yourselves thinking the story can grow the same way I think it can.

Let's explore this new universe. Together.

Tee hee.

-Shinerdrinker