Shinerdrinker: Blog

So I got an email from someone...

If you can't finish a story in 5 years, you really should take up another hobby. It just isn't that good of a tale to take this long. Its ok, lots of folks aren't cut out to be writers.

Yep, that's why we do this.

Oh yeah, I didn't do any correcting to what he wrote. I'll leave it as is.

Sorry about venting, but I was in the middle of writing, and I chose to continue doing that rather than taking this guy's suggestion.

Back to the grind we go.

--Shinerdrinker

Well, one day after posting, the count for that chapter has already passed 5,000 for the latest chapter. Amazing! Thank you all!

I guess I better get back to writing. I've said it before, but I generally try to post the next chapter once the previous one reaches over 10,000. So we are already halfway there to our goal. Tee Hee.

Though, I am shocked at the numbers. Shocked and enjoyed them. So much so that I have started the next chapter. But I'm still stuck in a quandary. I want to get on with the birthday dinner and the surprises I'm thinking of adding, hopefully, for my score of fans who read my poor choice of words.

I want to get to the dinner, but I also want to get to the removal of the undercover spy from downtown. Ooh, maybe I can have them meet each other! Nope, that won't work. I'd have to introduce the aliens too early in the story. Oh wait, did I type that out loud? Please, forget I wrote that.

Okay, coin flip it is. Gimme a sec, will ya?

Good, we trust the gods with their choice. I hope you guys will like it once finished. What was the winning flip... I'm not gonna ruin the surprise.

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Hello, again, friends!

I just wanted to let people know the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill has been posted to SOL. I thank everyone involved with the site, from the creators to the content makers, that making it the best venue for wannabe authors to try and find their voice.

Some might think this new chapter is a bit slow. And I understand the criticism but trust me, there be a method to the madness!

The next couple of chapters are ramping up for some excitement, and I hope you continue to come along on this voyage with me. (I wanna see what happens next, just as much as I hope you do!)

Oh yeah, as an extra positive, it was pointed out that Mayhem in a Pill is currently number two on the "ongoing serials" list on the home page. I take that as a positive, wouldn't you?

Okay, enough of this jibber jabber! The wonderful chapter 69 (noice!) has been posted and is waiting for you to read. So hurry up and get to it!

Thanks,
Shinerdrinker

Okay, so I did a thing.

Tee Hee. Well, I knew I could, but I sat my ass in the chair and did what Hemmingway suggested. I bled on the paper. I fucked around and found out I could write when I wanted to. Except, it was a computer and a blank page of a writing program. Still, the feeling was there.

I'm itching to go back to the future Tim timeline for chapter 70. Maybe. Maybe not. Dunno. Y'all can fuck around and find out.

Either way, I've sent chapter 69 to my cadre of editors. They, of course, had denied themselves food and refreshments since the posting of the last chapter to please me into writing once again. This time it worked. And I have blessed them with new prose.

(No problems with ego here, eh Shinerdrinker.)

So long story short, I've put the all-important chapter 69 (noice!) into the editing process. Virgins and young animals across the globe are hereto warned of their possible calling.

Hopefully, the rituals are enough to please the ever-difficult readers into enjoying another verse of the grand story again.

Okay, Shiner, I think a trip to popping thee ole ego is possibly needed.

Maybe not. Fuck around and find out. Tee Hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Okay. I had to make a writer's adjustment to the last chapter of "Mayhem in a Pill."

I had to change the birthday that Tim had forgotten about from his sixteenth to his fifteenth. The age change was something I was planning for a couple of reasons. But I have decided to postpone those reasons and replace them with a new idea to try and grow the character a little bit more.

I hope it will work. My outline changes are showing me it will; I've been going by those consistently since I made them AFTER I started writing the story. Yes, it's true. I started writing the story with a slight outline in mind, but the story quickly overgrew my subtle imaginary outline, so I took the time to write out a fuller outline, and I have followed that ever since.

Instead of forgetting his sixteenth birthday, I believe it would be a much more believable story for him to forget his fifteenth birthday. Several have asked why would an American teenager forget his sixteenth birthday, and those arguments have won me over. So I'm making the change.

So I guess the moral of our story is a well-argued point can change minds. That and me coming up with a cooler story path sounded more fun.

On another note, I have read several people not enjoying the story's pace. I understand and agree the pacing has slowed. I'm working on it. But, I also understand that several readers would also like me to post the entire story for their amusement immediately.

I'd love to. But I can't since I write, send it to the editors, and finally post. I don't have chapters pre-written, but I do have scenes pre-written and not thoroughly fleshed out. But when appropriate, I do bring those in. A good example was the death of A-Train. I wrote maybe 90 percent of that scene a couple of months earlier and then filled it out when I pasted it into the chapter.

So fear not, minions, I am working, and I'm also improving, hopefully.

Tee Hee.

--Shinerdrinker