Always write under the influence

[Bu🤠ns]

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Always write under the influence
A sober writer is a pretentious writer...

For me even posting around this place I feel like I have too much restraint.  I'll type something and then delete it.  Maybe I should lubricate the judgment a bit. 

I wonder if I'm alone in feeling this way.

[GrannySmith]

Hahaha you got a point there!
I thought the restraint i feel writing here is becoming less and less as i get used to caring less about the reaction of the readers - something that in everyday life is more difficult to do. But I haven't written in public forums for quite a few years, it feels like i have to relearn this. Even though the influence might help, i often have then a hard time understanding what i wrote myself   When i don't think clearly it seems to me (afterwards) that I skip parts of my argumets/sentences that to me at the moment appear self-evident.  I actually do that sometimes also when I speak, and that even without any influences!   

[Cain]

Sometimes, a bit of alcohol can help.

A bit.  And too much, of course, doesn't help at all.

However, it's a bad habit to get into because...well, Christopher Hitchens. Basically.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I often post on the board with a bit of wine.

I never write papers for school while drinking though, it just fucks me all up for academic writing.

[Salty]

I've often thought I could put down some very fine words as long as I had enough booze and quiet space. I do really well when all lit up. The trouble is I am unprepared to potentially write a masterpiece (hah) if it means becoming a drunk.

Some of the best stuff I've written here was half written by a bottle.

I think it is a matter of judgement. Your judgement falters with the booze, so you actually put words down instead of THINKING about words you want to put down.

But I think if you just crank out a couple of thousand words every single day those little bumps smooth themselves over. Eventually. Maybe. If you're lucky.

[Doktor Howl]

My very best and very worst writing has been done with head full of whiskey.  And there's no way to tell which it will be.

I have, however, quit drinking altogether, because I can't stand the hangovers anymore, and I'd like to think that I could liberate the things in my head without chemical assistance.

[Bu🤠ns]

My very best and very worst writing has been done with head full of whiskey.  And there's no way to tell which it will be.

I have, however, quit drinking altogether, because I can't stand the hangovers anymore, and I'd like to think that I could liberate the things in my head without chemical assistance.

I think that's a good point.  And like Alty said about judgement...I'd like to be able to get rid of, or at least quiet that voice in the back of my head that begins it's sentences with, "Now wait a second, there..." 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't do my best writing when I'm drunk. I do my best writing when I need a drink.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

So much semicolon hate. This kind of makes me want to get drunk or eat a bag of shrooms just to see what would happen to my writing. What could go wrong?

[Salty]

Hemingway was plastered, a lot, but IIRC he wrote standing in the mornings, and didn't get drunk until he was done.

[Doktor Howl]

My very best and very worst writing has been done with head full of whiskey.  And there's no way to tell which it will be.

I have, however, quit drinking altogether, because I can't stand the hangovers anymore, and I'd like to think that I could liberate the things in my head without chemical assistance.

I think that's a good point.  And like Alty said about judgement...I'd like to be able to get rid of, or at least quiet that voice in the back of my head that begins it's sentences with, "Now wait a second, there..."

I have that voice.  I laugh at it when it tells me not to hit post.

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME.

And what's the penalty if the voice is right?  Thread falls off of page, world mysteriosly doesn't end.

[Salty]

My very best and very worst writing has been done with head full of whiskey.  And there's no way to tell which it will be.

I have, however, quit drinking altogether, because I can't stand the hangovers anymore, and I'd like to think that I could liberate the things in my head without chemical assistance.

I think that's a good point.  And like Alty said about judgement...I'd like to be able to get rid of, or at least quiet that voice in the back of my head that begins it's sentences with, "Now wait a second, there..."

I have that voice.  I laugh at it when it tells me not to hit post.

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME.

And what's the penalty if the voice is right?  Thread falls off of page, world mysteriosly doesn't end.

Yes. That is the only way to handle that thing.

Now that I think about it, my best writing is always when I've got that feeling in my gut that, much like certain bateria in certain digstive tracts, HAS to come out.
My very best writing is much like sudden, explosive, projectile vomiting.

IN MANY WAYS.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like semicolons; they are very useful. I am not such a huge fan of ellipses, however...

[Cain]

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

FUCK THAT SCHOOL LARNIN, THE REGLAR MAN DON'T NEED THAT SHIT.