Shinerdrinker: Blog

Okay, I am completely embarrassed about the mistake but I will give an inside explanation. I was thinking of another story idea and I am in the process of setting up an outline. Yes, I am thinking about publishing it on SOL. I was thinking about a fight I had written on that other story while also writing the chapters for Mayhem. I got them confused. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often with me or other writers on SOL. Especially those writing and updating several stories at a time.

So I wrote George was watching a video replay of his fight and unconsciously rubbed his jaw where he got hit and knocked out. But eagle-eyed reader and totally coolly named Shadowfall found the mistake that George was not knocked out but rather put in choke hold and fell asleep.

Thank you Shadowfall.

For the record, I have absolutely no problem with someone pointing out a mistake like that.

And as a thank you, just for Shadowfall, I will let everyone know I am deep into the next chapter and there will not be a long drought in between chapters. I find with no football and no basketball, I have a good more amount of time to write. No set time but know that I am at least half finished with the chapter.

There you go. Since Shadowfall found the mistake, he gets me working more on the story.

(Why do I have a sudden fear of people suddenly going over inch of the story trying to find mistakes forcing me to fix them all.)

But just a minute, ESPN is now showing a couple of Canadian Football games a week and I do recognize several of the players from when they played college ball here in the states.

-- Shinerdrinker

It was dark outside and I was preparing to enjoy my new window air conditioner that forced me to pull out the winter blanket for the bed. (I'll use the crappy toilet paper to make sure the air runs at full blast in my house.) Sue me. I'm fat and we smell when we sweat. I don't wanna smell. I'd rather see my breath while watching the local news gal point out that the temps are hitting over 100 in my hometown. (I do feel for all of you who have even hotter temps but I'm going with what causes me to sweat.)

Now. Why was I blogging? Oh yeah.

The next chapter is with the first editor. I'll get that back and go over the suggested corrections and then send it along to the other editor. Then I get to go through the whole circus once again. Then I post.

I also wanted to let those score and a half of fans of my story know they may want to reread Chapters 22 and 23 just to get reacquainted with that side of the story. And the new chapter will come either this weekend or beginning of next week. It all depends on the editors.

In the meantime, I will begin working on Chapter 27 so the next chapter won't take so damn long. I know I am letting some people down by not posting the chapters quicker but my procrastination is a strong and powerful enemy. And Netflix does have some cool ass shows.

Believe me I'm trying...

Mayhem in a Pill just topped 300,000 downloads.

My swelling head cannot walk through the halls of my humble home without turning sideways. But in all truthfulness... I was pretty close to having to do that already. Tee Hee.

But sincerely, thank you all very much now let's double that number as quick as possible. And yes, I'll be sending the next chapter to the editors later this week. Thanks to everyone for reading a story that has been flying around my imagination for years.

Thanks.

Okay. Good and Bad News.

Holy Hell, they certainly build these freakin' HP laptops to make them unbelievably difficult to open and get to the damn HD!

But success!

And then I hooked it into the original machine and... YES!!!!!

Okay, so I got the files for Mayhem in a Pill and I will start up on those later tonight and then I can send it off to the editors and hopefully get the next chapter out to ya and then I can start procrastinating all over again.

Oh, also I was even able to save the porn and pirated movies. So umm, woo hoo!

I use two laptops. I've talked about the table I use everyday but I didn't talk about the two laptops. I write on one and backup on the other. I guess I am being punished for drinking water rather then my normal Shiner.

Yes, I spilled the glass of water onto the laptop with the non-backed up version of chapter 26 of Mayhem in a Pill. Each chapter is normally 12-15 pages in OpenOffice. I was on page 8 and the last bit of the chapter was ready to go just needed the conversations written. In other words I lost Chapter 26 when the glass spilled. The laptop won't turn back on. Just black. I was able to remove the battery then place it upside down on a dry towel and I dried up whatever liquid I could find. The HD was not wet in the slightest so I am going to leave them out overnight and hope for the best tomorrow afternoon when I have some more time for writing.

I even used a hair dryer to blow into the laptop and make sure everything is dried. Hopefully the liquid did not fall into the HD and the insides just needed to dry out. But if worse comes to worse, I'll have to restart writing the Chapter from memory because the in depth outline was also on that computer.

Ugh. Let's hope it is better tomorrow.

Edit: Ah, crap, I was just reminded about the porn! Oh for the love of everything holy, don't forget about the porn!!!