Shinerdrinker: Blog

It's your pal, ol' Shinerdrinker!

I just wanted to let you all know that, yes, what you are seeing is not a figment of your imagination. I did post another chapter in Mayhem in a Pill.

Don't worry. The world ain't coming to an end just yet. I just found myself in the middle of a writing spurt, and it was good stuff. So, a little spit and polish, and it was deemed worthy of posting. I also think it takes the story along as well.

Hopefully.

Okay, that's it. I'm working on the next chapter, and I'm about halfway through it, so keep those thoughts for good writing coming because I think it's working.

Oh yeah, one last thing... whichever one of you has created a voodoo doll of me, can you please scratch my left butt cheek. That's a mean itch on there... NO, not inside! On the fleshy area, that bulbous, fleshy area. Ah. Thank you.

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

The number one question I get asked is why can't I get these chapters out faster. (Yeah, I also ask myself the same question.)

I've given the same basic answer... these chapters are both long, and I'd like to think they are pretty decent.

It does take a little longer than normal to bring out. Especially since I don't have a lot of free time. I mean, there's football, and like college football, and now even more high school football, and like MILF porn. There's almost not enough time for the football.

Tee hee.

I'm working on it. I've given myself a challenge, and hopefully, I can get this one. I'm trying to get Chapter 88 of Mayhem in a Pill out before the end of the year. Chapter 87 is currently with the editors, who are giddy and anticipating how people will react to the next chapters. But then again, they have always been giddy and anticipating how people will react to the next chapters.

-- Shinerdrinker

I've been recently receiving notes wondering about the continuation of the "Future Tim" storyline.

Member... you guys, remember.

Tim came back after visiting himself in the past, and the times changed completely differently than he had imagined.

I have, in fact, left that storyline by the wayside. I have NOT abandoned it. I just felt like I had written myself into a corner and saw no good way out of it. Let me repeat... I AM NOT ABANDONING THAT STORYLINE. I can see that storyline becoming an entire book when this one is finished.

So I will return to it. (I have new ideas for it, and now I can outline them into a tighter book.)

I've explained in the past how that entire timeline was a last-second addition on my part that I thought was a cool idea. It was and still is. I just had no idea where it was going to go. I have remedied that since then. But I've listened to the far greater number of people who would like to see this "Teen Tim" storyline wind down to some sort of stopping point rather than continuing ad nauseum. (As would I.)

So be patient, please. I will come around to it. But until then, lemme end this with some good news. Most chapters of Mayhem in a Pill are about 17-20 pages long in LibreOffice. The next chapter is coming along nicely, and I expect to send it to the editors this weekend!

I know. I know. Set up plans and watch what happens. I know I'm tempting fate, but I had to do something since there was no hard-core belief on my part for any of the professional football games for me this weekend. My team played earlier on the holiday and they play later this following week. So I got the time.

However, I did find some high school football on the TV, and that scratched the itch I didn't realize was even there!

So, a quick recap: The "Future Tim" storyline is not abandoned; it is just placed on the back burner. Besides, I need to have something to pump you guys for some cash with a new story, eventually, don't I? The next chapter of MIAP is well ahead of schedule, and of course, I still have the greatest score of fans in the world!!!

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Okay, kiddos! We got the new chapter in the queue.

Tell your loved ones you have to read a report for work or something, and that's why you can't spend the next few hours with them as they destroy your home.

You can thank me later.

Enjoy.

--Shinerdrinker

Hey there, kids!

Do you like to read? Do you still like movies about gladiators for personal reasons?

Well, the next chapter of "Mayhem in a Pill" is currently pushing its way through the editors. We need to give them some time to come to terms with how their points of view in this wild universe will have permanently changed after reading the chapter. It could be for good, or it could be for evil. I guess that depends on the type of mind-altering drugs my editors have chosen to peruse this weekend.

Mine come in small, 12 oz glass bottles with a logo that says "Shiner" on the side. I'm genuinely partial to them bad boys myself. Or maybe it's just the morphine pills I found from when I was in the hospital that last time it took this damn long to get out a chapter!

Hey, believe me, kiddos. I was thoroughly flogged with a wet noodle for not getting this thing out in a more rational amount of time.

Really. I'm sorry. But I like what came out, and hopefully, the editors can make it sound like I have some kind of idea about what I'm doing here.

I figure we can get this read and fixed maybe over the weekend; if not, then later in the week. Anyway, since my current team is stinking up the football field, I don't feel the need to spend entirely waaay too much time overanalyzing their play. And it is still juuuuust a bit too early to begin work on the 2025 NFL Draft. But you know your boy is already on the case!

So, get started on the next chapter. Maybe I'll get one of those protohuman writing binges where writers sit down and pour out pages over pages of new stuff, and it makes sense. Stupider shit has happened. We all know of a recent example like that.

Thanks. And once again, sorry about the long wait!

--Shinerdrinker