Shinerdrinker: Blog

Never worry, never fear, Chapter 45 will soon be here.

For some reason tonight I was thinking about Bugs Bunny. I dunno why. But at least I wasn't thinkin' about Bugs Bunny dressed up as a girl bunny. Dammit!

Okay, I just wanted to let you few fans know that Chapter 45 of Mayhem in a Pill is with the final outside editor. Once they finish and get it back to me, I get to decide if I go with their changes or leave it as is. I normally use their changes cause I'm pretty sure my editors are smarter than me. And I totally know they could beat me up. I'm not a lover or a fighter, I'm in the guy in the back of the cafeteria selling smokes.

Figure Sunday or maybe Monday for the next chapter. The one after may take a wee bit longer just because a lot of my free time this month is going to be taken up with the final season of Game of Thrones. Then the following week is the NFL Draft. I don't miss any of that. It's a problem. I understand it's mine but I don't wanna be fixed. Then the next weekend is the premiere of Avengers: Endgame. I. WILL. BE. WATCHING. THAT. AS. WELL. I already have tickets for the midnight showing. It's good to know people.

So there goes a lot of my free time I normally use to write. But I usually still find an hour here or there so maybe I can get it written quickly or not. It all depends on if I can get flowing with the writing.

Anywho, next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill is coming up soon. Just wanted to let you all know what was happening and why there might be a delay in chapter 46. I don't want a delay but we'll see.

--Shinerdrinker

Just a quick thank you to everyone reading Mayhem in a Pill. The latest chapter "Blood Brothers" is going to go over 10,000 downloads later on tonight. That is in just under six days. Used to take a month to do that. Now six days.

So I'm hearing y'all loud and clear. I'll work on the next chapter some more tonight. I think I've said it before but a chapter for Mayhem is anywhere between 13-16 pages long in OpenOffice, which is what I use to write.

I'm already halfway through page 9 in what I have written for the next chapter. I guess I can give you guys a little bit of a clue of what this one is about. We go back to young Tim and some of the people he has had to deal with. Something really bad happens to someone he knows. Not well, but he knows.

Dun. Dun. DUUUUNNN!!

-- Shinerdrinker

I'll say that again. Hot Damn!!

Seven Thousand downloads in one day! 7,000!!! Scores are one way to measure the story but the number for this story I feel can improve but I think it is reached its normality. But watching the number of people who access the chapter and then now with the new author followers slowly rising, it is a wonderful way to get feedback on a story.

Thank you all very much. I can still remember when I posted the first chapter and watched the counter rise for the next few days. It was amazing. People were reading my little story and they were liking it! Great feedback and great notes as well. I even got a couple of people offering to be editors. Unfortunately, they fell away and I found the two that I work great with. They make the story sooo much better. It would be complete crap without their work.

So, I wonder how long would it take to get it to ten thousand. I believe the record is like four days but I think that number is gonna fall.

As a reward, I will go ahead and not do my weekly search for MILF porn today and this evening. I will work on the next chapter exclusively!

You guys deserve it. Thanks again!

-- Shinerdrinker

I would have had this next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill posted last weekend. But surprisingly enough, my editors have lives of their own and are not seated silently in front of the computer screen waiting patiently for the next chapter to come their way. I know I was confused by it as well. So we all gotta wait a lil while.

But I also just realized that it is coming up on the one-month deadline since the last chapter was posted. Not to worry people, I have not let myself fall into the self-imposed quagmire of procrastination.

As a matter of fact, the latest chapter is officially in the final phases of editing. So I expect to be able to post either the end of the weekend or the beginning of next week. I don't like posting late Sunday into Monday because the amount of new posted chapters on Sunday night to Monday morning is usually high.

I spend all this time writing the chapter and then going through the many upon many edits from my hard-working editor volunteers, and then the post goes up on Monday. As well as many others. It gets lost and the casual readers don't see it. That's one of the main reason I put myself through all this. I wanna hear what others think of my writing and my story.

So if I can post early Sunday night, I will. But if I have to wait until Monday afternoon or even Tuesday, I will.

So expect the next chapter either the end of the week or beginning of next week.

Thanks for writing and most of all thanks for reading!

-- Shinerdrinker

Holy Crap!!!

I still find it difficult to imagine that anyone is actually reading my story but then I get news like this. Within 24 hours of Chapter 43 of "Mayhem in a Pill" being posted, we reached 7,000 downloads!

Seven freakin' thousand downloads of Chapter 43 in one day!

I am humbled.

I better get to work on the next chapter if I stick to my general deadline of trying to get the chapter out around 10,000 downloads.

Thanks to everyone who reads the story. I work hard to make the story the best it can be and the pure numbers of people downloading it to read are what makes me keep going.

I will finish this story. I will make the chapters come out faster but there is no way I can make it on a weekly basis. But every other week is a bar I might be able to reach. Not this week but soon... maybe.

--Shinerdrinker