Shinerdrinker: Blog

I figure some ear food would be nice about this time. I had the pleasure to see this band live a few times. I don't like country music but this is something a bit different and the idea of sitting around a picnic table outside of a golf driving range was something I did for pretty much an entire summer in my younger years.

This brings up the fact that after a long bout with well basically not wanting to write because for the last month or so I was being lazy kinda like those days on the driving range.

A nice breeze, good friends and cold Shiner Bock always seemed to lead to something else if we waited long enough.

So you all waited long enough so here is Chapter 8 of "Mayhem in a Pill." Check it out and let me know what you think.

Seeing as how the temperature in South Texas has turned to the higher end of the thermometer, I'm going out to the backyard, grabbing a cooler fool of Shiner and gonna let me mp3's just go through my collections for the Texas Tornados. Well, I better wait until tomorrow afternoon since it is like 3am, but at least now I have something to do for this weekend rather than watching TV.

I'll let you guys in on a little secret... the speed of the next chapter is directly proportional to the amount of feedback I get on the chapters.

Just kidding... maybe!

Enjoy!

- Shinerdrinker

A paraphrase of a rap song by Eminem but also a call to arms if you would. Mayhem in a Pill has a new chapter coming up Sunday.

Real life kicked me in the gonads and decided follow me as I rolled on the floor in pain. I want to thank the few fans of my story who were desperately trying to get me to update the story.

I wonder if that is how Cold Creek feels every time he gets one of my emails begging for an update on the DMAN series.

Oh well, I have just put the latest chapter in the queue and I just realized an update on Sunday morning should have a nice amount of readers since normally there are not many updates coming out Sunday morning. Or am I guilty of wishful thinking?

Okay, so a new chapter coming up and also I'm still not completely back on my Thursday posting schedule but it definitely won't take another month for the next chapter.

Thanks for reading "Mayhem in a Pill" and as always please let me know what you think of the story, it is the only payback I get for doing this.

Okay, I locked myself in the house for the weekend and sat in front of the computer trying to rework the story into the new vision I forged.


I think I almost have it. I am also going to take the council of several writers I truly respect who said once I made it known that the story changed. They counciled me to wait until not only outlining the new story but getting several chapters into the future if not even finishing the story before posting again.


Don't worry... I can almost hear the collective inhale of excitement... I'm not going that far. But this weekend let me get far in the story so locking myself to the computer was a very good thing for my readers.


New chapters are coming but I will wait until I can reach a few more chapters into the future and also make sure I can keep up with posting and writing. Or I can turn into Cold Creek and post once or at the most twice a year.


No. I will post much more often then that since I am addicted to the feedback.


But until then...

Six months.


Six months before I started writing and posting, nothing out of the ordinary happens. Then stuff out of the ordinary happens and it has kept me from writing. Normally not a big whoop but in this case, I'm also suffering from writer's block since I decided to change my story in mid-stream and I already had up to 25 chapters written following the original outline.


Sparks of inspiration are both things of beauty and objects of disgust. While the idea was beautiful, it destroyed what I had already created and now I have painted myself into a corner. The spark of inspiration can engulf the story in an eerily beautiful blue flame and can create something wonderful to watch in the night sky. But then again if you're not careful, the story gets burned into nothing... if you're not careful.


I have a plan but this is when real life rears it's ugly mug. I have already basically shredded the finished chapters and have created a series of... well... scenes. So know I have to re-edit the story using these scenes and writing new transitions for the high school Tim and for the future Tim.


The tapestry should form a wonderful mosaic when complete... or it will turn into something that obviously fell from the sky and hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way to the ground.


I'm betting on the former.


I have not given up on "Mayhem in a Pill". So please don't give up on it yet.






"Never give up. Never surrender."

- Jason Nesmith, Galaxy Quest

Hello all!

I finally have the back chapters all up to date and clipped and polished by TeNderLoin. Hopefully, I will be able to get the next chapter to him for edits and then put it up for my hungry masses of readers eager for more of my story.

Believe me, I'm eager to serve it up for ya'll as well.

A little patience everyone, a huge chunk of what has stalled the story is now out of the way. Only thing stopping us now is getting me to actually write the next chapters.

So let's summarize ... all back chapters at optimum levels, next chapter going nicely and TeNderLoin is anxiously waiting to get the chapters out and for everyone else to read them!

Next chapter later this week!