Shinerdrinker: Blog

A quick update from the Shinerdrinker.

Real-life really screw with what you want to do in life. I had everything prepped for faster uploads of chapters but well you know.

Have faith though my score of fans out there. I am working on the next chapters. And yes, I meant for the plurals. I'll leave you with that.

When will the next chapter post?

I dunno. But I have not given up on "Mayhem in a Pill."

I do have some time this week in and out between stuff but I WILL work on it this week.

I'm guessing the average age of the readers and especially the authors/editors are closer to retirement than beginning careers. I'm in the middle of it as I'm still of the ripe young age of 45.

I'm figuring most people don't realize that I'm probably young for the authors on this site. There is nothing wrong with that.

I bring it up because the last chapter of my first story on SOL Chapter 49: Onyx featured a house transferred into a Strip Club/Bordello. One of the characters in the story even pointed out the story from one young man's father had the club sounding like the orgy scene from Stanley Kubrick's final movie "Eyes Wide Shut."

But I was also reminded today by an old college friend I'm lucky enough to still have to want to talk to me still after all these years. He just read the latest chapter this weekend since he claims to have some type of life involving a so-called career and family to look after. I don't believe him, but hell his wife seems to back up his story. Anyway, he sent me a link reminding me about a music video from right after our college days.

I clicked the link and damn if he wasn't absolutely right. I was even going to use a famous sports celebrity as a guest at Onyx to get Tim and his friends into the action... so to speak.

Anyhow, it is a rap song. A figure some of you might not like that noise and I completely understand. So don't worry about clicking the link, we won't call you square or anything like that. I find myself agreeing with many of you about these new rappers. Not a one could keep up with rappers from my youth. Not many of these new groups have anything important to say about anything but what they spend their money on and where they go to party. Nothing wrong with that, but I preferred it when the songs had a point other than vanity.

But I digress... try the link if you like.

https://youtu.be/Vb2mnDp68S0

If this link won't work, copy and paste into another tab on your browser. That should be the cleaner version at least but the cutout words and pauses kinda screw up the song. But make sure your significant other doesn't see it or you might have to come up with an excuse. And if you're like me, those things can't be wasted on something like this.

Enjoy!

Okay, the counter just showed Chapter 48 going onto 10,000 downloads (actually 10,001) just happened.

I have Chapter 49 ready and edited.

Was gonna wait until this weekend but I can't help it. I still got two weeks until its time for the next to be posted. And I will get it done by then.

It's in the posting queue and will appear shortly.

Enjoy!

I'm freaking out a little bit. But it is a freak out of my own making. I am right now writing Chapter 50 of Mayhem in a Pill. Chapter 49 is back from the editors and I am also in the process of going over what my wonderful editors believe need to be changed to make the story at least readable. (I'll be forever indebted to those guys. Once I got them reading the first drafts of each chapter, the story got sooooo much better.)

But now I'm looking at Chapter 50 of Mayhem in a Pill. Fifty chapters... fuck! I can't believe I actually have written something that long.

I got the writing bug when in high school for the school newspaper, I won several awards for my writing and I still have those awards to this day. I was damn proud of them! I won second place in the state journalism contest for sports writing my senior year and also got a fourth-place for an if-I-do-say-so-myself outstanding editorial piece I wrote about homelessness. I found a fellow student who at the time was homeless and I followed him on a normal day. I actually convinced my parents to let him stay with us for a few weeks. I still call him on his birthday cause I'll always think of him as a brother. He's got a wonderful family and a great career up in Dallas.

I also got him to become a visitor of this website to follow my story and he gives me feedback for each chapter. He often reminds me that since I obviously based the character of Tim off his exploits in high school, then I should make him blonde just like him. He has no hair on his scalp any longer, so I told him he had to grow his hair back first, then I'll change it. He sent me a middle finger picture. But I digress.

Chapter 49 of Mayhem in a Pill was incredibly quickly turned over. So I am going to hold it for as long as I possibly can. Maybe a week, probably a little less. I am trying to set up a better posting schedule. I'm shooting for every other week rather than my former whenever the fuck I felt like it schedule. I really liked that one but if I removed the feedback complaining about the posting schedule than I'd lose about 80% of my feedback!

So I'm going for every other week with new chapters and I want to keep them about this length as well. I could easily cut it in half and then the posts would be easier but I like the lengths of the chapters now.

Basically, Chapter 49 of Mayhem in a Pill will post this week. But when I'm not too sure exactly. I am currently in the process of writing Chapter 50 and I hope to send that onto the editors sometime this week as well. Maybe that's how I'll remember to post 49 and do it all at the same time.

Sounds good to me.

Thanks again to the score of fans who do read my story. I hope you appreciate the work that goes into each chapter.

--Shinerdrinker

P.S. One of my editors, WildBSinTX sent a nice note along with the corrected chapter tonight. He said and I quote... "I do believe this is going to be one of your most popular chapters. Who doesn't like a good 'porn starlet seduces teenager' scene?"

He's absolutely right of course! Let's see what the numbers think as well. I'll let y'all know later after posting and waiting a few days for the results!

So what am I talking about this time?

I'm just letting y'all know that Chapter 49 of Mayhem in a Pill is going through the editing process right now. I'm not gonna post for at least another week cause I'm gonna try an every-other-week posting schedule.

It is going to take a LAWT of work on my part. Mainly giving up a lot of my normal TV time. Cause I'm an American and I was raised on TV. It is important to keep my relationship with it alive and full of life. I need it and it needs me. If the magic ever starting falling out of our relationship, I'd be the most giving and energetic partner of all time. We would fix our problems and come out better as a couple afterward.

Oh yeah, my wife too. Probably oughta remember her as well.