Shinerdrinker: Blog

Okay, I got some news about my first story on SOL, "Mayhem in a Pill."

When I first started this story, I started a weekly posting schedule. I figured I could at the very least keep that up since I had several chapters in the bag so to speak. But after a couple of chapters, as I've told the full story in previous blogs, I decided to try following both story arcs at the same time under the same story. I was originally going to make two different stories and put them into the same universe. First about the boy who took the pill and his life thereafter. The second about what happened to the man giving the pill and his life thereafter. Anyways, I changed it and put them into the same story. I should have had my head examined.

It was difficult but a great challenge and I enjoy the way it has worked since then. According to the feedback I received, the introduction of the future story was jarring to many readers but they gave me the benefit of the doubt and continued with me. I now find myself thinking just like those fans and become excited at a new chapter. Mind you, some prefer one story arch to another and I of course understand but it's the few who while initially unsure of the two universes in a single-story have now welcomed the story and are following along with both.

That's where I have lost a few and yes, I do listen when people complain. The number one problem pointed out to me is the length of waiting time in-between chapters. Well, situations have changed and I am now able to do something more about the long wait times in between chapters being posted. I have reached a moderate 11,000 to 12,000 downloads of individual chapters. It used to take a full month and usually a week or so longer to get to that number range. I could take my time and be as lazy as I wanted to be. But now that is something I no longer want to worry about. Mainly because I can reach the 11,000 to 12,000 download range in under two weeks per chapter. I can't post that often without getting several chapters ahead and again we hit dead on the number one problem I have and that's my laziness.

So as much as it pains me to say it "Get your ass typing, Shinerdrinker!"

And so I shall. I'm got a wonderful visit from the muse so many writers talk about and/or blame for their lack of updates. I got an amazing push with a few ideas for BOTH universes in "Mayhem in a Pill."

So, the next chapters of "Mayhem" should come rather quickly. I'm going to go ahead and write to them and stash them to post later. But I will not hold them indefinitely. I will post them. I've decided to use an "every other week" posting schedule. Every week would be impossible since I need to eat and shower occasionally. But every other week is fast enough to get people reading the story again. Especially those who've told me they love the story but have decided to wait for several chapters to back up before going into them again. Once again the main reason for having to hold off on reading a new chapter is simply the slow speed of posting.

In fact, it's gonna be rather hard to hold me back from posting them. I have chapter 48 of Mayhem already with editors and they will get them back to me whenever they get them back to me. I told them to take their time, no need for rushing since right now I am a good three weeks ahead of schedule.

So lookout for the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill coming soon.

Okay. I got that out of the way. But I fell like I'm forgetting to tell you guys something about this next chapter. Something important. It's on the tip of my tongue.

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Oh shit! That's right. Sorry about the upcoming cliffhanger but hey, we are all trying to improve here. Guess the good news in that is the cliffhanger should not hurt as much since Chapter 49 should not take that long to be posted... unless I decided to get all lazy again. And that's totally possible since the NFL will be getting training camp underway and that means pro football returning. Well, pre-season football. I'll try to get along before then.

Like the title says, it certainly can.

My editors are amazing and got the chapter finished in record timing. They say it's because the writing is improving, I say it's because they are too amazing at their jobs.

I have submitted Chapter 47 of Mayhem in a Pill to posting.

Enjoy!

I try to get each chapter out at least in a month from the release of the last one.

But this next chapter will not meet that deadline. But it will only miss it by about a week or so. I have the final page to write tonight and then send it to the editors. They do need a little bit of time to fix my undescribable ramblings into something people can read and understand.

So then I guess in actuality, there is also a bit o' good news in there, too.

--Shinerdrinker

I remember seeing "Can't Buy Me Love" way back in the day. But why haven't I remembered it more fondly than I wish I do now.

The kind of girls going to this school is just unreal for a high school movie. I'm having trouble trying to remember any other movie or TV show with better-looking girl students than this movie.

If you can't remember said flick, lemme break it down for you. A geek is in love with the cheerleader captain and has been his entire life. But he yearns to become a member of the cool kids. One day in the mall, he sees an opportunity. The cheerleader ruins her mother's expensive suede outfit trying to show off for the cool kids herself. She goes to the store where her mother bought the outfit trying to get the store to give her another before her mom finds out about it. The geek offers her the cash to buy the outfit if she helps him become one of the cool kids.

Of course by Christmas, both kids screw up their lives always trying to keep up with the cool kids and both kids realize they actually love each other.

But the story particulars are cookie cutter but the girl in the school. Holy Hell! I spotted former Playboy Playmate Devin Devasquez before her time in front of Hef's lenses. And she wasn't even one of the regular girls, she was the ultra hottest of the school that everyone aspired to see nekkid and maybe even play nekkid with her willingly.

But I digress, I can't believe I could not remember this movie for the life of me. Even if it did momentarily bring about the greatest of all dance crazes, "The African Ant-Eater Ritual." A showstopper if there ever was one.

As I think about it, I believe I might have tried something as crazy as paying the captain of the cheerleaders to date me for a month or so and create a reputation worthy of the cool kids. Even if it did bite him in the ass and make him a pariah of the school.

Yes. I would have done it for the girls. Yes. Yes, I would have done it for the girls. And I'm pretty sure I ain't alone in that am I?

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Oops, sorry to end it on a bad note but I just read online how the actress who played the head cheerleader Amanda Peterson passed away in 2015 of an accidental drug overdose. The anniversary of her death is just a few days away.

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P.S. I also saw whereby my blog page here on SOL has been accessed over the 50,000 times. I guess people like the little thought I put up here from time to time as well. That's not really that important in the scheme of things but I thought it was damn interesting!

Hey everybody! I got a great response from my last blog post about my re-reading of "Island Mine." I directly equate that with people's love of the story, right along with my own love of that story. I know one thing for sure, I got more response from the blog posting than I did the last two chapters of "Mayhem in a Pill."

But I have had a few responses quote a blog posting about the passing of Refusenik. I have not heard about this and was wondering if it is true. If anyone really knows about Refusenik it would be him. If he has passed then okay, I can deal with that, but if he has just hit a hard patch of writer's block, then I can deal with that as well.

So what we (or more to the point I) need is for the truth to come out. Has Refusenik cast off his mortal coil or has he just decided to hang up his quill and stop writing for us?

Which is it?
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(Oh yeah... same thing for Cold Creek.)