Lemme tell y'all a quick story about "Mayhem in a Pill."
I came up with the title when I was first loading the first chapter up onto SOL.
Let that sink in.
I had previously written about eight chapters when I decided to go ahead and start uploading what I had to SOL. The story was not yet titled but I was already eight chapters into something I thought would be near fifty. (Since then I have not decided how far the story would go. I have a general idea of calling the end of book one at the end of the freshman year.) I was actually scared. I have several stories written and I could have uploaded any of those for my first story. But I decided to go with something fresh. Something I only had a brief outline prepared when I started. I now worry about publishing something that if I get a better idea for a better story line, I won't be able to go back and fix if I publish stories as I write them.
I'm actually glad I did because since then I have gone over some of my other short stories and I don't even want to try and reedit them since they also seem somewhat dated.
I mean one of them depended highly on alpha-numeric paging. Remember the late 1990s, you had to call a toll free 800 number and tell the operator what message you wanted sent to the person you were paging. You dictate and they type then read back to make sure it was what you wanted. It was texting with a third person involved.
I digress.
I was scared to upload "Mayhem in a Pill" because well quite simply, I didn't know what to name it. So when I uploaded the first chapter, and the site asked me for the name of the story and I just froze with my fingers over the keyboard. But quickly I found myself typing "Mayhem in a Pill" into the space when SOL asked for the title. I recently found my old list of possible titles and I didn't have anything near that. I ask you other writers, would you have had the marbles to publish a story without a title. Yeah, neither would I. So "Mayhem in a Pill" was born.
Bettcha didn't know that, huh.
Anywho. The next chapter of the story features a return to the escaping prisoner story line, is with the final editor and should be getting uploaded soon.
I find it perfect timing since not only is the next chapter almost ready but my little "Untitled" story has grown into something even bigger than I could have dreamed it would become. In looking back, yeah, I should have gone ahead and tried one of my older stories and built up a following of a couple score of fans. But no, my stupid ass needed to do things the hard way.
The more approving way.
The much more satisfying way.
The almost 500,000 download way.
Thanks a bunch and the new chapter is forthcoming.
-- Shinerdrinker