Shinerdrinker: Blog

Okay, hold on everyone.


Mayhem in a Pill is not taking a strange turn. In reality, I'm finding myself growing up is an awkward way to put it. But a continuing story by a writer I absolutely adore had me thinking a little differently over the weekend.


Allow me to share.


This writer, who has been updating a wonderful story on a semi-regular basis, hasn't changed the basics of the story that I considered a favorite of mine since I first found SOL. I was reading the latest updates over the weekend and I found myself -- gulp -- skimming over the sex parts. They were not same old same old but rather I found myself saying out loud, "Enough already, let's move along the story."


That actually caught me by surprise. Sure I've done it on other stories before but I have never done it with any story by this particular author. The sex scenes are wonderfully written and there is nothing familiar about one scene to the next except for the participants.


Am I growing up and not wanting to read about the icky sex stuff or am I just wanting to read about the story itself?


Ugh. I don't wanna think about it anymore. That's it, I'm taking my ball and going home.


P.S. The next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill is with the last editors and should be posted really soon like tonight or maybe tomorrow.


Enjoy.

When I started writing this story I set an artificial deadline for myself of waiting until 10,000 downloads of the latest chapter before I would post the next one.

Slowly but surely the artificial deadline was reached a little earlier but usually three weeks to a month.

Chapter 19 of Mayhem in a Pill hit 10,000 in less than 48 hours.

I am totally blown away. And yes chapter 20 will come this week but I want to wait a little bit just to make sure the number stay high. This is in direct opposition with my natural laziness and I can see the writing on the wall. But then again I see the numbers, not really the votes since they seemed to be stabilized and I am slowly understanding that I should be happy it ain't dropping. Would I like to see higher vote totals, of course. But I am also happy where they are sitting.

Whew, 10,000 downloads for a single chapter in less than 48 hours. I'm still trying to get my head around it.

Friendly reminder, yes chapter 20 should come up this week and yes I am already working on 21. I don't know when that one will post but yes I'm working on it. Damn. This is all going against my natural laziness but fortunately, I'm just as interested in finding out what happens as all of you.

Thanks again for reading and all the support.

Guess who's first story on SOL today went over 200,000 downloads?

Okay, you in the back making noises all throughout the educational movie we were watching. No. Try again.

Yes! "Mayhem in a Pill" has crossed over 200,000 downloads!

Maybe you guys weren't lying when you said there was a strong possibility there were more than two fans of the story out there. If there really is only two fans out there then, you guys have been working REALLY hard to get me to 200,000.

Thanks again. I expect Chapter 20 to be posted sometime next week.

Okay.

To both of my fans out there in the interwebs, I have placed Chapter 19 of Mayhem in a Pill into the submission queue. Almost exactly one month since the last chapter. Again apologies for my laziness but I do this for fun and when the muse strikes. No strike that. I could probably write faster but like I said... lazy.

Chapter 19 comes up this morning for you to enjoy and believe it or not Chapter 20 is already with the editors! No. I'm not kidding.

I wrote Chapter 20 first but then had an epi.. epif... uh, I had a good idea how to humanize the varsity coaches a bit and from the response from the editors. I done good.

So please enjoy Chapter 19 and in about a week or so, I'll post Chapter 20. Gotta wait a little while to get the downloads nice and rounded off, just the way I likes' em.

And please remember to let me know what you think of the story. It's the best way for instant feedback and also let's me know what you guys are thinking... as scary as that sounds.

Oh, almost forgot, there is some bad language. Some words actually hurt to type but remembering what it was like on the fields back when we had to avoid the dinosaurs to actually play football, that language was used often and I got into my fair share of scuffles over the use of some of that language. But enough about me, go enjoy the chapter. Hell maybe we ALL will get even luckier and Cold Creek will post an update... or maybe we can just hope for a blog.

-- Shinerdrinker

I have been writing up a storm in the last couple of weeks and I am purposely giving the inspiration at the the beginning of a new football season!

The first week of high school football started up this weekend. So I am using it as a muse to make me write. So I will have the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill going to the editors this weekend and the chapter right after that probably a week later.

Reason it worked out this way is because while writing the next chapter I got going on another idea and after a couple of hours, I realized it would work very well with the overall story line and also perfectly right before the first game for Tim and the last loss for the varsity.

So once I decided to put it in where it naturally flowed with the overall story, I saw I needed to add more to make a full chapter. But the next chapter is 95% written. So it will only take a couple of days of work then it too can go to the editors. All I need to do after that is dot the T's and cross the I's.

So in an unusual timing quirk, Mayhem in a Pill will be updated with new chapters within a week of each other instead of the normal month or so lag time. The lag time is mainly due to my own laziness.

But inspiration from real football, helps put me in that mindset of following this boy on his journey to becoming a high school football star. But don't worry about "Future Tim" he is also finding new a new turn in his life.

Okay, that's enough. I gotta get back to writing the actual story so I can send it on to the editors and posted for both of my fans.

Thank you again for your support.