Shinerdrinker: Blog

Sorry about the long wait, but real life jumped up and bit me in the butt-tocks (read Forrest Gump-style). So, I finally got around to correcting an egregious error pointed out to me by several readers that got through all of my editors and myself. My mistake. I took the idea and ran with it, but the rules say it's a no-go. So I've fixed it.

The kicking team cannot advance the ball on a kickoff.

You can't advance the ball on a recovered onside kick. I wrote the scene from memory I had saved on YouTube, and when I rechecked it, I remembered it incorrectly. In the football play I saved, the kicking team did not recover the onside kick. A player on the receiving team recognized it was coming, and when the ball bounced to the ten-yard active line, he ran under on the first bounce. He ran right by a kicking team member who was obviously concentrating on blowing somebody up with a mega-hit to collect the ball. He didn't react as the receiving team snatched the ball on the second hop and ran it in for a touchdown.

My bad.

I've fixed it. And I'm almost done with the next chapter and coming up with an important decision. I will let y'all know what it is when I post the next chapter. Don't worry. The story ain't stopping. I want to find out what happens just like you.

I just wanted to let you know I changed the last chapter a bit... not much. But it still works for me and the overall story.

I'll finish the next chapter now, especially before the NFL starts tomorrow. There's nothing quite like finding a deadline for the writing bug to catch on, huh?!

Tee Hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Okay, just letting y'all know that the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill has been posted and is now available for your reading pleasure.

I apologize to those of you who don't like the descriptive parts of football in my story. It is necessary for the story, and it's my story so there. Tee Hee. Just kidding.

On the personal front, I'd like to thank a reader out there who has been going through the story since the beginning and has meticulously found a few mistakes in several chapters since the beginning. To that reader, I'll keep your name secret, (unless you tell me it's alright,) I thank you, and you should know I will now begin going through and making all of those corrections. Again, thanks.

-- Shinerdrinker

I asked that many times over the last month and a half. I apologize for the tardiness of this next chapter, but I did have a good reason. Believe it or not, I was writing too much.

I did 18 different versions of this freaking chapter. Eighteen! I've said it before, but my chapters are usually around 16 pages in LibreOffice. But I had versions of this chapter hitting 30 pages. Way too many.

So I had to cut them and edit them myself before sending them on to the editors simply out of not wanting to embarrass myself too much. I mean those guys have had to edit my unseen prose. That ain't easy, lemme tell you.

So long story short, I have sent chapter 77 to the editors, and hopefully, I'll be able to post this new chapter early next week. But it's up to them and how much red they leave on the page.

Tee hee.

-- Shinerdrinker

I was perusing SOL too late in the evening when I noticed a name in the list of authors Up for Archival. That is the list where authors who have not signed on to SOL under that pen name for a full year have all their stories published on the site placed behind the paywall.

I hope everything is okay with Shrink42. His "Banner Year" is still one of my absolute favorite stories on this site.

I only noticed because, as an aging individual, like, I suspect, many others here, I have achieved that nasty habit of reading the obituary pages more often than I'd like to admit, just to see if I knew someone no longer here.

It's macabre, but then again, I keep finding more and more people of my age and up who have this same affliction. It's the same reason I periodically check the "Stories About to be Archived" list, you know, to see if I know someone on it. I just saw Shrink42's name and stories listed as getting ready to be placed behind the paywall.

I hope the absence is just because he wrote the stories he would write, and the itch was scratched. Here's to hoping that is why he hasn't logged on to the website and not for any other gruesome reason.

I suggest everyone read one of Shrink42's stories because they are great. The stories are so great. They help you skip over any typos and let you enjoy the story.

My personal favorite of Shrink42's is "Banner Year." But I also enjoyed its in-universe companion piece, "Redemption." It's not as good as Banner, but it is in the same universe, and you don't need to read either/or to be able to understand either/or.

"Corona Heights" was a nice read as well, but it hit a slight squick for me and knocked me off the story for a bit, but I soldiered on and enjoyed it for the experience.

I've rambled on enough. If you have a chance, read "Banner Year." You'll enjoy it.

--Shinerdrinker

Okay, first, apologies.

Sorry, but I was unable to finish the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill this week and send it off to the editors this past weekend. I was NOT fucking off and only searching for MILF porn. I did that, too, but on separate tabs. Tee Hee.

But I didn't finish the chapter because I needed to go back through and rearrange some things to nearly force the chapter to flow better. It took the better of two days to fix my obliterated smorgasbord of what is supposed to resemble writing.

(On a quick tangent, did you know you were supposed to re-read everything AFTER you had already written it? Surprised the fuck outta me, but I figured it might make the editor's job a little bit easier in the long run.)

Anywho.

I'm still working on it and am determined to finish it this week and send it to the editors. ASA-friggin-P!

Another quick apology to my editors, I was never accused of being overly endowed with intelligence. I will venture to read my prose before sending it to you. (Why didn't someone tell me?!)

But I digress, and just for penance, I will not search for MILF porn tonight or tomorrow. There. You see. The sacrifices I make for you people.

Ugh. I can already feel the sweats from non-Milf porn time on the computer.