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Anonymous Fri Jul 22 09:19:32 2016 No.8308277 [Reply] [Original]

is it necessary to be an alcoholic if you want to be a good writer

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 09:20:40 2016 No.8308280 My diary unfortunately

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:07:31 2016 No.8309391 >>8308277 I'm an alcoholic and a bad writer. Not sure if I can answer your question though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:16:32 2016 No.8309422 >>8308277 is it necessary to be a good writer if you want to be an alcoholic

Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:25:33 2016 No.8309455

>>8308277
You should always be as sober, well-rested, and clear-headed as possible when you sit down to write.

You should be very wary of relying on crutches like drugs and alcohol to give you "inspiration."

The liquor will always be there, but it'll take more and more away from you while it gives back less and less.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:27:12 2016 No.8309462 >>8308277 alcohol can help, but alcoholism is an impediment

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:33:54 2016 No.8309488 >>8308277 No writers use alcohol to cope with "reentry". It's used as the anesthetic of The Self. Walker Percy writes about this. Also correlation does not imply causation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:37:08 2016 No.8309497 >>8308277 Nope.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 16:54:36 2016 No.8309575 Write drunk, edit sober. --Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 17:07:37 2016 No.8309626 >>8309462 This. Short term alcoholism might not be too harmful to creative output but any long-term heavy drinking will wreck you. For every alcoholic writer who manages to keep drinking and writing well there are a ton who wenf to shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 17:14:48 2016 No.8309656 If I were an alcoholic, me, I'd eat scotch eggs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 22:21:17 2016 No.8310570 is it necessary to be retarded if you want to post on 4chan

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 22:24:47 2016 No.8310579 >>8309656 Scotch eggs are one of my favourite drinking foods. They're convenient.

>>	C.W Smith Fri Jul 22 23:05:58 2016 No.8310695 >>8308277 I got fucked up earlier today, but didn't write anything unfortunately. But I feel like shit right now, so I guess its inspirational. But I feel like to be something I must destroy myself

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 23:06:58 2016 No.8310699 It's 2016. Alcohol is old news. Look into RCs and other POMO drugs IF you need drugs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 23:09:57 2016 No.8310705 Write drunk edit drunk publish drunk donate to NASA

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 09:40:19 2016 No.8311692 File: 85 KB, 540x540, 1466618321933.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8309422 probably, you need something to justify your rampant alchoholism to not be a hated drunk

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 10:12:46 2016 No.8311766 >>8308277 Hitchens certainly thought so, and he died before he could write anything that wasn't trotskyist bullshit

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 10:45:11 2016 No.8311803 >>8308277 DFW was

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