/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23122683]

I'm genuinely considering taking so many drugs that I develop schizophrenia in an effort to be as good a writer as Pynchon is.
Will this work?

[Anonymous No.23122687]

>>23122683
No, you won't be able to construct a coherent sentence. It's like you haven't even looked up the symptoms of schizophrenia, Anon. High risk of disordered thinking.

Anecdotally, people with drug-induced psychosis seem way more fried to me than people who develop it the natty way from genetics/trauma.

[Anonymous No.23122689]

>>23122683
You have zero talent for writing. Schizophrenia is not going to help you

[Anonymous No.23122698]

>>23122683
I developed a schizoid personality disorder by taking Focalin for seven years

[Anonymous No.23122706]

You're more likely to end up a Terry A Davis

[Anonymous No.23122714]

>>23122698
How do u feel now?

[Anonymous No.23122716]

>>23122683
it couldn't hurt, I say go for the gusto

[Anonymous No.23122757]

Pynchon is the best author you could think of?

[Anonymous No.23122763]

>>23122757
He's one of the greatest authors in the history of the English language.

[Anonymous No.23122771]

not that pynchon is schizophrenic, but most mentally ill artists of any worth are good despite their mental illness, not because of it

[Anonymous No.23122819]

>>23122771
source?

[Anonymous No.23122828]

>>23122771
Wrong.

[Anonymous No.23122830]

>>23122819
>>23122828
Two genuine retards

[Anonymous No.23122839]

>>23122830
You and who else?

[Anonymous No.23122866]

>>23122714
Amazing. I love being schizoid. Used to feel differently about it until I realized lots of people envy emotional muteness

[Anonymous No.23123545]

>>23122683
No. if anything you'll have to figure a way to straighten out your thinking to even begin writing again. You will become unproductive and change reward receptors in your brain; you'll have to practice at focusing on tasks again, which will only be amplified by your procrastination.

[Anonymous No.23123573]

>>23122683
You're going to overdose and kill yourself, don't do it.

[Anonymous No.23123620]

>>23122683
Only one way to find out

[Anonymous No.23123627]

>>23122683
if you can't develop schizophrenia sober through books a bunch of RCs and weed won't make you a good schizo either

[Anonymous No.23123643]

Studies have shown using drugs, particularly cannabis, cocaine, LSD or amphetamines, can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia,

[Anonymous No.23124632]

>>23122683
Don't listen to these idiot discouraging you. Taking drug is actually a good way to enhance creativity.

[Anonymous No.23124709]

>>23122683
Saying you're taking drugs to "enhance creativity" is just a cope people use to avoid admitting they're a junkie. I know because I used to.

[Anonymous No.23124734]

>>23122683
Meth is a good option for this, but it won't make you a better writer it'll just make you better at churning out page after page of schizobabble on command. You get volume, most of it will be unreadable garbage. Maybe some gems.

[Anonymous No.23124748]

>>23124632
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jytxkJUM_7U

[Anonymous No.23124774]

>>23122683
Lol zoomer thread. Stop complaining and go help your mother with the dishes.

[Anonymous No.23125073]

>>23122683
read pic rel if you want to see what would actually happen to you.

[Anonymous No.23125144]

>>23122683
If you think drugs make you better at things, I hope you OD.

[Anonymous No.23125150]

>>23125144
>every great artist in every medium has used drugs
>but I'm sure there's no causality there

[Anonymous No.23125185]

>>23122683
Possibly. Post a sample of your writing and let’s go from there.

[Anonymous No.23125394]

lmao, this is how out of touch normies are when it comes to understanding mental illness, schizophrenia is perhaps the worst mental illness you can have, probably the worst ways to suffer through life. If you want to find out what insanity feels like, just have someone lock you in a dark room for a month.

[Anonymous No.23125403]

Why bother taking drugs.
You're already there motherfucker. Maybe you just need an editor

[Anonymous No.23125406]

You can induce psychosis with meth pretty easily. Takes about 3 days, though.

I don't suggest fucking with your brain. I did a few years as a fentanyl junkie, and I've been clean for about 4 years now, but it changed something in me and I feel like a completely different person now. Hard to explain, but it doesn't have anything to do with desire for drugs or anything.

[Anonymous No.23125494]

>>23125185
Out of all the odd things he discovered whilst bushwhacking, these were the strangest: a mound of about 200 semen-encrusted socks hidden under a blue tarpaulin, the smell of which he described only as, quote, life-altering; the severed hand of a timberwright that was, surprisingly, left mostly uneaten by animals; an immovable and unopenable steel box, about one cubic foot in volume, that, when struck with a stick, produced a frail, witchy sounding scream, as if a damned soul was incarcerated therein; and a set of footprints he identified as belonging to an extant and hitherto unknown-to-science race of gigantopithecus (identified as such because he, a rationalist at heart, doesn't believe in superstitious crap like cryptids and sasquatch).

[Anonymous No.23125506]

No, but 2c-b or lsd microdosing can help you be more creative without creating a schizo headspace

[Anonymous No.23125512]

>schizophrenia is… le bad

[Anonymous No.23125594]

>>23125512
It's not le good

[Anonymous No.23125637]

>>23125150
Every great artist also engaged in the male gaze, but for some reason modern artists avoid it like February 29th. How about instead of acting like a druggie you start acting like a heterosexual?

[Anonymous No.23125650]

>>23125637
>drugs
>pussy
>chillin with the bros
Turns out Chad was /lit/ all along

[Anonymous No.23125659]

I love threemilk so much it's unreal.

[Anonymous No.23125720]

>>23122683
It's cheaper to sleep deprive yourself. Leonardo da Vinci slept 20 minutes every 4 hours, so you should try that instead.

[Anonymous No.23125742]

schizophrenia is not always what you seem to think it is. drug-induced schizophrenia in particular will not help you in anyway. chances are it will come to via anxiety induced psychosis and you will be too busy trying to breathe and stay conscious and deal with disorientation and derealization to even sit down and write something

[Anonymous No.23125829]

>>23125720
Yea but he's a genetic freak

[Anonymous No.23125902]

>>23125742
How does Pynchon do it then

[Anonymous No.23125935]

>>23122689
>You have zero talent for writing.
You don't know that.

[Anonymous No.23125975]

Becoming le insane schizoman isn't going to work. I don't believe these insane authors and philosophers are good because they're insane. Insanity is just a byproduct and a hindrance and they'd be even better if they weren't insane. You're just romanticizing dysfunction because it's easier to wallow in feces than start taking the necessary steps to fix your current unsatisfying, meaningless lifestyle.
People with an IQ less than 150 shouldn't even bother trying to be authors or philosophers. Just become a plumber or an electrician and put these foolish ambitions to rest. The world doesn't need more mid literature by unexceptional people.

[Anonymous No.23126054]

>>23125975
Welp. Guess I'll kill myself

[Anonymous No.23126075]

>>23122683
You'll end up more like Francis E. Dec instead of a creative genius. Yet his letters are interesting. You do you

[Anonymous No.23126086]

>>23125742
Makes me wonder in general how the mentally ill create such good art. Some of the most beautiful art gets made by people apparently in deep depression, but when I’ve been depressed I could barely get out of bed, much less make great art.

[Anonymous No.23126130]

Prose-writing talent is so rare that I'm ready to believe it's like savant syndrome. A part of your brain just malfunctions and brain regions connect in ways they normally wouldn't, giving bizarre verbal talent. When most great writers are alcoholics, depressives, schizoids, or bipolar then something weird is going on. Like the brain is gaining some new ability due to malfunctions in other areas. But that only happens very early in development.

[Anonymous No.23126139]

>>23126130
>alcoholics, depressives, schizoids
All me

[Anonymous No.23126681]

>>23126086
They're bipolar

[Anonymous No.23126684]

>>23125935
I do, especially since you think inducing schizophrenia will help you be a better writer

[Anonymous No.23126688]

>>23125637
>modern artists
Fags and women? You don't say.

[Anonymous No.23126694]

>>23125975
You're actually retarded.

[Anonymous No.23126721]

>>23126684
I wasn't OP. You seem to exhibit a pattern of making unfounded assumptions. Usually this signals a lack of critical thinking abilities.

[Anonymous No.23126729]

>>23126721
You seem to exhibit a pattern of writing like a faggot. Usually this signals a lack of critical thinking abilities.

[Anonymous No.23127971]

>>23126688
Huh??

[Anonymous No.23127985]

>>23122683
You will either have kidney failure and need dialysis for the rest of your life or end up like that schizo-autist girl who couldn't boil water

[Anonymous No.23128156]

>>23126721
>unfounded assumptions
It's easy to assume that you were the OP from your post, or were you doing one of those things where you're just 'pretending' to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.23128184]

>>23122683
Fuck 4chan for ruining this cute girl

[Anonymous No.23128193]

most actual real schizophrenics are not like your romantic conception of how they are. they are fucking retards that babble on and on all day and sit in a filthy house with shit all over the floor and have no coherent thought nor spoken word at all. life is pure agony and you turn into a literal low iq idiot.

[Anonymous No.23128205]

>schizophrenia is… le bad

[Anonymous No.23128216]

>>23122683
Being a schizo is not like your retarded memes where there's a guy talking to himself and making an edgy joke. Schizophrenia is one of the worst fucking mental illnesses you can have right along dementia.
If you wanna have something to write about, go out and live your fucking life, and you want to write well, just fucking read.

[Anonymous No.23128223]

>>23128216
It’s not that bad you’re just a pussy.
>t. schizophrenic

[Anonymous No.23128256]

>>23126130
Because mental illness is correlated with divergent thinking.

Divergent thinking allows someone to think outside the box, make connections between two seemingly different ideas blending into a fully formed creation that has spark; Aka, creativity.

[Anonymous No.23128263]

>>23128223
See you in 20 years.

[Anonymous No.23128296]

>>23128263
Sounds like resentment.

[Anonymous No.23128325]

>>23128296
okay buddy

[Anonymous No.23128336]

>>23128325