Shinerdrinker: Blog

Hello out there fans (both of you)! Just a quick update, I haven't been writing much this month not for lack of muse or for lack of time but actually lack of wantto. What is "wantto" you may ask?


Well it is what I call the large beast perched upon my back - my laziness. Normally a shake it off for a weekend and I can get into writing but I just haven't wanted to do any shaking so a couple of days ago I realize we are just hitting October and I see I have not updated "Mayhem" in just a bout a month. Then I realize I haven't even started the next chapter.


Soooooo.


I got some "wantto" down at the corner store, watched some high school football on TV to get into the rhythm and today I got a bunch of work done on the story so I'm about 60 percent through the chapter.


On a side note, I realized that jury duty is a great time to get some writing done. Especially when you don't get called until the third role call just after lunch and then when we lined up to enter the courtroom to begin voir dire. A settlement is reached and we are excused.


Rather than going back to work, I played hooky and went back to the cafeteria got a cold drink and kept writing. But another couple of hours and I went home. As far as everybody knows I had a terribly stressful day waiting to help this judicial system work its magic but actually I got a big chunk of the next chapter ready.


Long story short... too late! The next chapter should be posted either this weekend or early part of next week.


Okay, back to grind.

Holy crap! I am totally not used to being able to submit chapters this quickly. A couple of nights ago, I started outlining the story and rather than continuing the outline, I got an idea for a conversation and rather than mapping it out I just started typing it out and editing as I went along. Next thing I knew it was 3 am!

Good thing I didn't need to be anywhere the following morning.

So long story, short. My main editor and proof reader have the next chapter and once I get those back and finalized, I will post.

A whole lot earlier than I expected. Hopefully sooner than you all expected also!

Okay, my main editor was offline for the last couple of weeks and just got back into it this weekend.

So now I can upload the latest chapter... ENJOY!!!!

Okay, maybe not as dramatic as that but yes the next chapter of "Mayhem in a Pill" has been sent to my last editor and I am just waiting for the final edits then I can post.

I know many of you are ready to read what is next, and I'm eager for you guys to read it. So either tonight or tomorrow will be the next chapter.

Ooh. I almost forgot to tell you. The next chapter will come much quicker since I'm already about half way through it.

Stuff is getting very interesting!

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