Shinerdrinker: Blog

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

Hey all.

Sorry about the long time between chapters but for some reason this one was not working for me and I couldn't put my finger on why. So I had to leave it alone for a while and take a look at it later. That worked a good couple of weeks later.

So I'll let you know I have just sent the latest chapter off for first edits and when they go through all then I'll release. But the other bit of good news was since I had time to kill and needed to let that part of the story marinate until ready, I got started on the next chapter which goes to the other segment of the story. I should be able to get this chapter out much quicker than this last one. Believe me, I hate not getting it out to you guys almost as much as you guys wanna read it.

Some like that I have split the story this way and others wish I would either get rid of the split or write two different books. I seriously gave some thought to that idea but in the end decided to leave it like it is and just continue on the path I started.

Okay, so that's it. A new chapter for "Mayhem in a Pill" should be coming up within a week or week in a half. Depends on editors and since I can't write very well and those guys do an amazing job making my prose sound... prosey.

Tee Hee.

-- Shinerdrinker

Hello.

Sorry about the lack of communication from my end but I hit a little writers block because I had written down what I wanted to do in this chapter and then the wife decided my "home office" needed to be cleaned while I was out buying groceries.

Every loose piece of paper on the desk was disposed of and on top of that the garbage collectors were also out and about while I was at the store. Ugh.

So I had to try and remember something I had written down on that piece of paper months ago so I would not forget. Ugh.

So I had to write the chapter without my cheat sheet. I got three-fourths of the way through and all excited I would be able to send the chapter to the editors a couple of weeks ago when guess what. A long forgotten set of neurons raised their hand from the back of the class and said "Hey, that's not how the chapter was supposed to go. It's supposed to go like this." So I had to restart. Ugh.

So long story short (too late) I am in the process of rewriting the chapter using the original version I wanted to use all along. It takes time but the words are flowing much easier and the MILF porn has been tame as of late so no need of diversions there.

Anywho. Um. Chapter is coming. I have not abandoned it. My plan (I know. I know) is to continue this story through this freshman year of high school and through whatever fun hijinks I can think of for the formerly fat escapee. Then call it book one.

I have a couple of other ideas for stories I'm really itching to get into but I can not walk and chew gum at the same time so one story at a time and my lackadaisical ass refuses to try.

Thanks again for your support. (I feel like that Bartles and Jaymes wine cooler commercial. Remember those!)

-- Shinerdrinker

"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around the city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, it would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."

~ Homer Simpson

Just wanted to point out "The Simpsons" TV show reached a milestone last night as the longest running scripted show in history surpassing "Gunsmoke."