drinking and writing: good or bad?

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My best writing has come after staying awake for at least 24 hours, no drinking except for caffeine. And by "writing," I mean posting to ILX, obviously.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Tracer, wtf you at.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Was it Burroughs who said "If you write stoned, edit sober. If you write sober, edit stoned"? I thought that was real deep when I was a teenaged stoner.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude, I am on the 5th floor of Chelsea market. That is why I am using so many commas. I just finished a cup of coffee, and there is no way I'm getting to sleep before 4am -- although my work here is almost done -- so my girlfriend is going to kill me, because she wants to get out of the house at, like, 9am and "take advantage of the day."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I desperately want to interpret that as "getting the day drunk and sleeping with it."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

well, I think you know my email, so wassup.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to do a lot of writing, drunk, in the back of a horrible old man bar in Upstate NY. I would have thought it would crap, but I found it a few years ago, and it was actually hillarious. Just merciless - I was such a bitch in my late teens.

These days, it's all about the coffee.

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to write these silly little record reviews, always a little or a lot wine drunk, and sometimes completely pissed off me head. Behold and lo I now have a whole load of unreadable shit to my name, just occasionally peppered with the odd inspired sentence or turn of phrase that I'm surprised I ever came up with.

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Thursday, 25 August 2005 08:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Drinking and writing's fine, as long as you always remember not to press the send / submit button when you've finished.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Did Bukowski ever write sober? I kinda doubt it...

― angle of dateh, Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Thing is, if you've got some wine in you while writing, if you write one good line, you'll think it's most sublimest achievement in western civilisation and subsequently just give in to complacent leisure. TOMBOT otm about the ludicrousness, but arguably the ludicrous stuff may be good stuff, i mean, if it gives you visceral pleasure, no matter how seemingly solipsistic.

― , Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

not quite creative writing but i cant write a job app at the moment without having a drink in the afternoon. i get too anxious. drinks the only thing that can calm my nerves. well unless someone can suggest something better.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link

F. Scott Fitzgerald sez - CLASSIC!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hemingway said total classic too.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

Raymond Carver.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:53 (4 years ago)

Fitzgerald = drank himself to death at age 44
Hemingway = committed suicide
Carver = alcholic, died age 50

Guess it depends what you mean by "good"...

― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link

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