Shinerdrinker: Blog

Most believe the fleeting whims of their muse a bitch. Oh, not I dear sir, not I.

I believe the bitch is the dreaded lack of ideas. I used to believe the bitch was the dreaded writer's block, where mainly you continue writing but your personal editor in your own noodle tells you everything you are typing is complete shite! And yes, I spellt it shite! Perhaps a new word is needed... shyte. Yes! Shyte will do fine.

I'm not getting bad ideas, I'm getting no freaking ideas!!!!!

Ugh. Now I'm depressed. Okay, I need a new plan of attack. What about self mutilation with soggy noodles. Why the hell am I fixated on noodles. Ugh.

Shyte!

Well not to worry everybody. I will find a way to throw the bitch out of my mind and preferably out of my neighborhood. No MILF porn can solve this problem... it is time to venture down the YouTube rabbit hole. That's always fun. Start watching Dallas Cowboys training camp reports and highlights from practice and end up arguing with wannabe critics about why the first season of Iron Fist was not as bad as they believed.

Whew. At least now I know what to do. I might not get anymore writing done tonight; but, at least I have put on my robe and I am getting ready to pick the bitch up and drop kick her into the back yard where she belongs!!

The next chapter is coming. And it is coming... whenever the hell it is ready because trust me people, you don't wanna see it before it is ready.

--Shinerdrinker

Like the title says, I'm humbled. Because today the count for my little story went for over 450,000 downloads but also over 3,000 votes.

That means that not only are people reading the story but they are liking it since the score has stayed in the relatively higher score since the last chapter was added. I know I shouldn't pay attention to that number but hey, sue me. I'll try not to cry about it too often though.

I thank you. Seriously. Thank you.

Makes me wanna skip searching for MILF porn and actually do some writing.
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Whew! That was close! I damn near closed the browser and opened the OpenOffice writer. Jeez, that was close.

Well, I do have the MILF site bookmarked. I can always go back to it. Yep. 450,000 and 3,000 votes. You guys deserve a treat. No MILF porn tonight, instead tonight I will work on the next chapter.

You're welcome.

A funny thing happened to me while I was reading the news off the front page of Yahoo. (Don't worry I had to check some of my free Yahoo mail. I don't use Yahoo as a primary source for the news.)

I saw a headline for a story. It read:

NHL Rumors: John Tavares Expected To Sign With One Of These Three Teams.

I don't care about hockey, but it did remind me that our boy Cold Creek has not given us another glimpse to the world of the DMan.

Mike Stewart for all we know should have been front and center this summer as a free agent for the NHL. Since he was also drafted in the same draft as Mr. Tavares.

But no. We have to live with the entire backstory and all the poon he had and let slip through his fingers. But hey... I think I found something to do this weekend and remind myself of the fantabulous life of a college hockey, fashion modeling, international man of mystery that in all rights will probably end with Mike waking himself up from his daydream of an entirely different life while standing in the rain over the grave of his father and mother who was interred six months previously.

Ugh. I hope I'm wrong and if I'm not then I apologize to the readers of this blog as well as the fans of Cold Creek's DMan series.

I'm sorry.
Oh, my bad.
My fault, bro.
I'm so sorry.
I apologize.
My mistake.
I had that wrong.
I owe you an apology.
I want to apologize.
I wanted to tell you I'm sorry.
I hope you can forgive me.
That was wrong of me.
I sincerely apologize.
I take full responsibility.

All that and then some everybody. I was simply looking for a little guidance and direction on if I pushed myself a little and actually worked harder on the chapters... no let me take that back.

I work DAMN HARD on these chapters. I just don't work too often on these chapters. Like a kid who knows the test is tomorrow morning so I inhale the entire book get an 'A' on the test and forget the whole friggin' thing twenty minutes after turning in the test.

I tend to leave it until I feel like working on it. It is usually when I don't see any of my favorite stories being updated and/or I can't decide on what story I'd like to re-read. So it's usually on those nights that I can work on Mayhem.

What I wanted to find out is would the score rise if I posted chapters quicker, with the same amount of work and at a regular pace. I started out with that idea and yes for the first few chapters, it worked. But then the ugly head of procrastination rises and puts a damper on everything.

It was pretty much universally told to me through what was easily the most emails I have EVER received since first posting, make sure the quality isn't sacrificed to meet some arbitrary deadline I think I need to post by.

Message received. I will keep the ship going along and if for some strange ass reason I find myself working on the next chapter, deadlines ain't mean shit!

I know we are supposed to act like we don't care about the scores for our work but dammit I do care about my score. And for my first piece of fiction, I think a current score of 8.09 is a great score.

But I wanted to ask if you think I could increase the score of the story by posting more often. I mean I have the ability to post more often. I don't know if my editors could handle it. I mean I am pretty sure they need hours upon hours of psychological help after reading through my prose-vomit. They way they turn it into something legible and closely looking like something built with the English language.

If I could get to posting once every like couple of weeks, do you think that would help the score rise or is there something else I could to help inflate the score. (By this point, I feel I have to keep building the story as is without focusing on older Tim or younger high school Tim. I'm writing about both and putting them in the same story.) If this was earlier one, and knowing what I know now, I could have broke them up into two different books and have them in the same universe.

I do know I feel happier when the score rises and it makes me actually work on the next chapter. Even if that fleeting feeling quickly passes but that was an hour or so of me typing that normally would have been spent looking for MILF porn or handicapping the next years college ranks in football for the professional ranks in the NFL. But now I also get to look forward to the American Alliance of Football and the following year, the rebuilt XFL by the purveyor of fine theatrical arts Vince McMahon.

By I digress... would a higher score come with me chugging out chapters or should I just stay the course and be happy where I am at?

Thanks,

-- Shinerdrinker