Shinerdrinker: Blog

I need to apologize to everybody because I just realized this evening how long it has been since I updated "Mayhem in a Pill."

I won't make excuses but I will explain my absence. And no it has nothing to do with my ever-expanding MILF porn collection. I've got that well under control, I thank you.

I recently fell down the rabbit hole of young adults discovering old rock from my youth and even before that. It's addictive. I'm telling you, watching a youngin' who had only listened to rap for their young lives with no idea of what kind of great music was out in the ethos just waiting for them to discover on their own. The joy of someone watching Stevie Ray Vaughn's Texas Flood, Live from El Mocambo, as he plays the guitar behind his back better than 99 percent of the others playing properly. It is fun. And it's taking a big chunk of the free time that I used to have for writing. Whew, it's exhilarating.

If you have some time take a look on Youtube at these kids discovering good music and slowly discover that the stuff they are listening to today fails in comparison to the stuff already done. It is a fun ride but it does take your free time away.

I'll get back to Mayhem since I think I've gotten most of those out of my system... what was that... oh hell, the kid just clicked on Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." I think I might have promised my change in focus a bit too soon. But hey, who gives a fuck? These youngsters need to learn and I'm all about edu-ma-cation.

Holy sh!t. Talk about touching a touchy subject!

I have never gotten that kind of response from either a blog post or a chapter... ever! Fifty-three different emails about this little off-the-cuff blog post. I felt I should have just kept to myself immediately after posting but I figured "well, I never really ever got much of a response before... I doubt anyone will really respond."

Boy, was I wrong! See, the responses I normally get for a new chapter are three or maybe up to five emails saying they liked the latest chapter or thought I should have posted faster or when is the next one posting. Those are the VAST majority of emails. And I love them. They are just enough of an ego boost to keep me going.

But the other night, I won't bore y'all with details, I needed a bit more of an ego boost and found the normally empty amount of new emails just a bit disconcerting. Counter that with a score of Mayhem in a Pill sort of stagnating. Mind you, I feel like that level is exactly where it needs to be since I find myself thinking the same thing if I hadn't been writing it, I'd probably be giving it the score of between 8 or 9 myself.

My ego is nowhere near high enough to believe my story deserves a ten. I mean my name is Shinerdrinker and not Refusenik nor Cold Creek nor is it, Al Steiner.

So basically the main idea I got from those who wrote to answer my story is they believe the main factor holding my story at its very respectable 8.25 is the lack of posting schedule and that posting schedule not being at least weekly.

I totally understand this. I generally agree with this. My ego is confident enough to say if I was posting chapters at least every week, then my story deserves to reach that rare echelon of more than nine. That's my feeling anyway. Most of the people felt this way and told me so in those 53 emails.

A few people also blamed the dual timeline story setting as too complicated. Some said to do away with it. Some said to turn the timelines into separate stories and some told me to stop writing altogether because "I suck." But I'm choosing to disregard that guy since he actually misspelled suck and actually called me an, I quote, "talentless hack."

So, as an ending, a promise for the future. I'll work on speeding up the chapters but I'm not going to set myself to a set schedule since I write this for fun during my far too few spare times I can write. Besides... what about all that MILF porn, it ain't gonna download itself.

Tee hee.

I was working on the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill when I noticed something about the story. I noticed the overall score has not changed much in the last year.

Now don't misunderstand me, I am thankful for every one of the votes my little story has received but I guess you can blame my vanity. My vanity was wondering, "How do I get the score to rise?" I know, I'm supposed to take the high road and not worry about childish things like the arbitrary score of a piece of fiction. But, well knock me over like a dandelion, I worry about it.

I was just wondering if there was a way to get more upvotes to possibly affect the overall score. Now that I've asked the question, I'm a little bit worried about what hornet's nest I may or may not have overturned.

Ugh. Now I'm really worried.

If this causes any problems, then please just forget I asked and just keep happily giving Mayhem several ten votes.

Tee hee.

Thanks,
Shinerdrinker

Well, y'all asked for it! Okay, I have submitted Chapter 61 of Mayhem in a Pill, and should be posted very soon.

Enjoy. And yes, I am already working on the next chapter.

Tee hee.

Hello all.

Sorry about the lack of new chapters for Mayhem in a Pill. I've been getting slammed by real-life so no time for writing. No worries, nothing serious, just time-consuming.

So I just wanted to give y'all a little bit of a heads up about the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill. I know I've been threatening to update for a while but I can happily tell everyone the next chapter is with the editors so give them about a week or so and then I'll post it for everyone.

Oh yeah, I just remembered, this next chapter is set in the older version of Tim so you might want to remind yourselves of what is going on with Tim and George over on chapter 56. Just to get a taste of that portion of the Mayhem universe.

Okay, that'll do it. New Mayhem chapter coming up probably either this weekend or early next week.

Thanks for sticking with me. I'll try to keep the next chapter coming a little more regularly but you know what they say about making plans.