Shinerdrinker: Blog

So, how's it going, y'all?

I've been kind of out of it for a while now. I do apologize, but I got hit with a hard case of the lazy. It was a pretty big case, and I'm still in the middle of it, but I reached the end of the latest chapter. I was quite surprised when I realized I had reached the end of the chapter.

So it is what it is. I have sent the chapter to the first editor, and when it returns, I'll send it to the next one.

I'm guessing about a week or so before y'all can read it for yourselves.

Just letting y'all know.

--Shinerdrinker

I was a little bored after I had just finished a few more pages of Mayhem in a Pill, and I decided to give myself a present and continue my umpteenth reading of Refusenik's "Island Mine." I had just reached the part of the story where Waylon was selling his first batch of gold mined by the aliens inhabiting his body when he went over the numbers for his first cashing in.

Seeing as how this story was originally posted in April of 2013. Oh damn, has it been that long already? I wondered what it would be as of today.

Hello Google!

So Waylon handed over 48.895 kg of gold to Whitestar Metals, pocketing $2.65 million in the story.

But in today's prices, that 48.895 kg of gold would bring home about $7.37 million.

Whew!

To paraphrase a line from one of my personal favorite movies, "That's a huge Twinkie."

Okay, back to work I go!

--Shinerdrinker

So I find myself slowly rising from the beauty of draft slumber, and I wonder if I missed anything while I was paying all attention to the NFL Draft.

It is my thing. I love every single aspect of it. I love the minutia of waiting between picks. I love the picks. I love the reaction of the picks. I love the analysis of the picks. I love the reactions to the analysis of the picks.

I even have a first draft ready for next NFL Draft season, right after the draft finishes.

I even love the process of straight-up trying to purchase players who weren't picked to join your team. It is all a grand time to me. So much so, I do nothing else during this time.

So I find myself looking at other hobbies and find a need to get them back into shape. And that brings me here, back to "Mayhem in a Pill."

I can now put my spare time back into this world. I find myself longing for it, so we should all see an update coming soon.

So allow me to apologize for the pause. I think I'll have to remember next season to apologize ahead of time for the coming pause. Because if I'm alive around draft time, it has my full attention.

Tee hee.

--Shinerdrinker

Okay, I've apparently hit a nerve.

I have no problem with continuing a story as a way to acknowledge your approval of an original story on SOL. Make sure to show the new story IS an acknowledgement of the original. Also, if possible, get approval to do the new story honoring the original.

Several people have written about my blog, saying essentially what I have said above.

My problem is with the 'author' "Adewale Bosun."

This author took the wonderful story "Island Mine" and posted it as his own on the Big River. Not a continuation. An exact copy of the same story. Bosun's only contribution is an AI-created cover.

That was the impetus for all of this from me. Taking one of the best stories on this great website and trying to profit from what was not yours.

If you wanted to write a continuation of "Island Mine," I completely understand the urge to do that, but you need permission. But since Refusenik has not been around, getting said permission is not a simple thing. So, you want to write a continuation using those characters, fine. But make it known that you are doing it without permission, but hoping to eventually get that permission.

It was "Island Mine" that lit my fire of fury. But a quick look through the rest of the offerings from this "author," and you see many other stories created by others on this website are being recreated for profit by someone else.

And what REALLY pisses me off, these stories have been making money for a little while.

--Shinerdrinker

This morning, I inserted myself into a quick discussion about an apparent plagiarist taking stories originally posted here and then being reposted by someone other than the original author over on the Big River website.

This evening, I got a message from someone named "fintinman_1." I'll place it here, as is.

what is the truth of you read a tale, that was never finished, or a tale that was done better then the author that started the tale. hell I wrote 19 published tales, that I gave up on because there was no real ending in sight. so gave up on them. it also allowed me to see that my writings were shit, in print. also that you can't whine, if someone makes it better. here's my advice. read warlords- scout, then read, argon's scout. tell me that BS, again.
it's not thift if you tell your tale.

Now here is my response...

"Huh?"

I'm guessing "fintinman_1" is talking about my extreme dislike of plagiarists attempting to profit from someone else's work.

I'm thinking I'm not alone in my thinking on this. Unfortunately, I forgot to save my well-worded response to him, but I did send it to "fintinman_1."

I also asked if he was maybe Refusenik under a different name. If that was the case, then apologies all around. However, that would also bring up the validity of the authorship of several other tales for sale under the name Adewale Bosun that seem to have originated from different authors here on SOL.

It is a quandary, for sure. What do y'all think?

--Shinerdrinker