Shinerdrinker: Blog

Was watching the NBA Draft last night and during a commercial did some channel flipping and happened to see the NHL Draft was occurring tonight. So I watched just a few minutes of it tonight since I'm not really much of a fan.

Of course, real life often makes me think of stuff from SOL. So here I am in my living room watching these young men getting ready to enter the tough world of professional hockey. All I can do is think about how would Mike Stewart be tearing apart the NHL.

Color me a fan, Cold Creek. Where is the next chapter of Dman?

Yes. Maybe it's time to try writing about basketball. Nah. I think I'll finish writing about "Mayhem" first. With occasional pauses for the new chapters by great writers. Especially Cold Creek.

It is sometimes absolutely revolting when some of the only feedback I get for "Mayhem in a Pill" are small emails: Good Job., Keep up the good work., Can't you write faster., When are you gonna start having the MC sleeping with his sister.

And yes that last one is a real question from an email I received a few chapters back.

I rarely get truly useful feedback and as some of you know I am probably disgustingly constantly begging for feedback. Tonight, I got what was probably one of the best pieces of feedback I have ever received in anything of my writing and I spent time in college writing for the student newspaper and a few neighborhood newspapers as a summer job. I am including the feedback from actual editors whose job it was to give feedback on stories.

This email was beautifully written and several points the writer made were actually valid. I spent approximately twenty minutes creating a reply email to go over the ideas that were brought up and to inform the emailer they were correct about a few things and I was preparing to make the necessary corrections to the story.

Then I looked up and saw this person's wonderfully crafted email with its many valid points and beautiful prose was sent to me anonymously. So no return email address was given.

There went twenty minutes of my day I could have been using to work on the next chapter as I found myself with time in my day to write and even now as I am writing this blog posting, I realize I should be writing the next chapter!!!!

So I have decided to go ahead and make some of the suggested changes as the anonymous emailer has pointed out but I make them with a real "meh" attitude. I was looking forward to a possible continuing correspondence with this person who obviously shares the same literary standing as the great writers of all time. Obviously because the first thing they wrote was how much they liked my writing.

The ideas were just great and I find myself considering some serious personality changes of a fairly important character in the life of Tim Murphy.

But then I also realized they chose to use the same system to safely contact me anonymously as the asshole who wanted me to start writing about sexually assaulting a fourth grade girl.

As I said... infuriating!!!!


P.S. I find myself working twice as hard as I normally would on the next chapter because according to the download numbers, we are quickly reaching my self-styled deadline of 10,000 downloads of a particular chapter. Realistically we are already within less than a thousand of that deadline so if I want to keep my self-imposed deadline I need to do some writing. But then again... it is a self-imposed deadline.

Yes, I am aware of the posting problems with the new chapter. I initially noticed problems with the formatting and was already working on those when the email started blowing up with many other problems.


Hopefully, the many problems will be solved and you guys can enjoy another look into Mayhem in a Pill!

EDIT: Okay, it looks like the chapter has reupped and is ready for your perrusal.

Please enjoy and let me know what you think!

Sorry about the wait.

According to my outline for this story, this next chapter should be focusing on "Fat" Tim and how the interrogations are driving him to make a decision. But the last thing I or I suspect anyone would want to write about is torture when they are sitting on a hospital bed awaiting surgery and the subsequent physical therapy.

Yep. I started but when I found myself in the first couple of paragraphs into the supervised interrogations, I just could not continue and decided to just wait until after the surgery and therapy. But then real life hits and rather than the typical 1 to 2 weeks of therapy, I spend nearly a month being worked over. But also good news is the next chapter has a great head start! I decided to go ahead and skip over the "Fat" Tim scheduled chapter and wrote about "Young" Tim's first taste of varsity football.

It doesn't hurt the overall story to switch chapters, so the only people who should notice are me and well everyone else who reads this blog.

Anyway, the chapter is in the queue and should post quickly.

Again sorry about the wait.

Well. Sorry about the wait but real life gets in the way and totally decides to take control until it decides to move onto someone else. Had a bunch of hospital-like crap happen over the last couple of weeks and as such, writing was the least of my concerns.

I have not given up on the writing since I have discovered it is a nice coping mechanism for dealing with every day life. I just get back into the story and stay in that world for a little while. One thing I do have to change up was my original idea for the next chapter was a visit into the future to see how the fat version of Tim was doing with the torture aspects of his life.

But after dealing with hospitals and recovery, the last thing I want to do is sit behind a keyboard and bring those thoughts into my life so soon after having to deal with people being hurt. Not good for the psyche.

So I decided to add another chapter of what is going on with young Tim as he deals with the current of fame and popularity in high school and on the football field. I am discovering it is waaay easier to write about that then having to describe minutiae of torture and how to make it stop.

I can see that there is no difference to the overall story if I switch the chapters, so I shall do that.

Who knows maybe my inner self will jump up and say "Fuck You. Do it now or you might not be able to pick up that line of thought again."

But I can then say "Fuck You. That's why I have notes."

I'll be doing some writing this weekend for those of you who have been asking when is the next chapter. Writing about teens growing up an going to high school football games is a lot more fun that describing the blood spatter after a finger nail is plucked from it's home.

I'd much rather describe a 300 lb lineman with a full head of steam preparing to tackle an unsuspecting 175 lb running back.

Yep. Much less violence there.

Maybe next week for the next chapter.