I'm freaking out a little bit. But it is a freak out of my own making. I am right now writing Chapter 50 of Mayhem in a Pill. Chapter 49 is back from the editors and I am also in the process of going over what my wonderful editors believe need to be changed to make the story at least readable. (I'll be forever indebted to those guys. Once I got them reading the first drafts of each chapter, the story got sooooo much better.)
But now I'm looking at Chapter 50 of Mayhem in a Pill. Fifty chapters... fuck! I can't believe I actually have written something that long.
I got the writing bug when in high school for the school newspaper, I won several awards for my writing and I still have those awards to this day. I was damn proud of them! I won second place in the state journalism contest for sports writing my senior year and also got a fourth-place for an if-I-do-say-so-myself outstanding editorial piece I wrote about homelessness. I found a fellow student who at the time was homeless and I followed him on a normal day. I actually convinced my parents to let him stay with us for a few weeks. I still call him on his birthday cause I'll always think of him as a brother. He's got a wonderful family and a great career up in Dallas.
I also got him to become a visitor of this website to follow my story and he gives me feedback for each chapter. He often reminds me that since I obviously based the character of Tim off his exploits in high school, then I should make him blonde just like him. He has no hair on his scalp any longer, so I told him he had to grow his hair back first, then I'll change it. He sent me a middle finger picture. But I digress.
Chapter 49 of Mayhem in a Pill was incredibly quickly turned over. So I am going to hold it for as long as I possibly can. Maybe a week, probably a little less. I am trying to set up a better posting schedule. I'm shooting for every other week rather than my former whenever the fuck I felt like it schedule. I really liked that one but if I removed the feedback complaining about the posting schedule than I'd lose about 80% of my feedback!
So I'm going for every other week with new chapters and I want to keep them about this length as well. I could easily cut it in half and then the posts would be easier but I like the lengths of the chapters now.
Basically, Chapter 49 of Mayhem in a Pill will post this week. But when I'm not too sure exactly. I am currently in the process of writing Chapter 50 and I hope to send that onto the editors sometime this week as well. Maybe that's how I'll remember to post 49 and do it all at the same time.
Sounds good to me.
Thanks again to the score of fans who do read my story. I hope you appreciate the work that goes into each chapter.
--Shinerdrinker
P.S. One of my editors, WildBSinTX sent a nice note along with the corrected chapter tonight. He said and I quote... "I do believe this is going to be one of your most popular chapters. Who doesn't like a good 'porn starlet seduces teenager' scene?"
He's absolutely right of course! Let's see what the numbers think as well. I'll let y'all know later after posting and waiting a few days for the results!