Deets999
from Connecticut is reading Adjustment DayFebruary 3, 2012 - 1:59pm
My opinion is alcohol and writing don't mix well - but alcohol is a great treat for after a solid writing session. I am willing to drink gallons of coffee while I write. This has been the formula I have followed to produce my crappy fiction.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 3, 2012 - 2:00pm
Jason has an attack bear and a raccoon spy named Skittles who is also telepathic.
PopeyeDoyle
February 3, 2012 - 2:06pm
I want an attack bear.
EDIT: Damn. I changed my name in honor of Alien and you can't even see it on the boards...
Nighty Nite
from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and WorksFebruary 3, 2012 - 2:07pm
All of them? I'm awful at this game. Oh well.
But more on topic, I tried drinking and then writing for the first time last night. It really didn't work out so well, I couldn't focus and I kept going back and writing the same things over again. But I managed to not misspell anything, which was pretty surprising. I'll stick to caffeine.
Ash
from the dark ghoulish woods creaking just outside the unhinged door, the macabre biting at the heels. is reading Our Tragic UniverseFebruary 3, 2012 - 2:17pm
Maybe there's a tolerance build up thing when it comes to alcohol and writing.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 3, 2012 - 2:20pm
I could never write while I was drinking. Too much apathy. However, I did, once, try writing after smoking some weed. I wrote this little free-verse jewel.
Then the darkness covered him over.
Bunny rabbits were everywhere.
Jesus doesn't like it when I'm high.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.February 3, 2012 - 2:22pm
Last night, pretty drunk, I wrote this e-mail to a friend (a girl):
I really want to call you right now and just scream:
DRUNK DIAL! DRUNK DIAL!
I feel that all capitals with exclamation points is redundant, but that's how damn drunk I am.
Loves,
-bh
ps. I'll knock you up.
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So, that's my drunk writing skills.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 3, 2012 - 2:28pm
I usually think the stuff I write drunk is REALLY good. But I am generally told that I am wrong about this.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 3, 2012 - 2:30pm
You're my hero Bryan. The drunk dial/ drunk text is SO underappreciated. How'd that work out for you?
Nighty Nite
from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and WorksFebruary 3, 2012 - 2:38pm
I feel left out. I've never actually gotten up to much drunken shenanigans like drunk dialing after a night of heavy drinking. There was this time a house party I was at had the cops called on it, so a friend of mine convinced me to jump out a first story window into some bushes, but not before puking on a bathroom wall, because there were two toilets and I couldn't figure out which one was actually the toilet. I chose wrong.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsFebruary 4, 2012 - 2:54pm
Do people really get offended on here? If that's the case, they can go fuck themselves. Or wait, who was supposed to be offended?
I've been doing that sobriety thing. I wrote nearly every day when drinking, more upon post-drunk/hungover time than intoxicated time. I don't write every day or even close to that when sober. I write more in one sitting than I did drinking. The quality, I think maybe, is pretty much the same.
Ash
from the dark ghoulish woods creaking just outside the unhinged door, the macabre biting at the heels. is reading Our Tragic UniverseFebruary 4, 2012 - 4:08pm
I don't know Renfield, man. Whatever the case i don't care about arguing. some people just like to watch confrontation. It doesn't matter though.
I think the occasional self shame that comes with the morning after is a good catalyst for writing sometimes.
And in the haze of alcoholic fury or love is a mindless expulsion of great creativity, I don't mind the editing a day later because its something that wouldn't have been wrote if i hadn't been drunk. And it's something that can be used or not. but least the option is there.
I'm drunk now. :p
nathaniel parker
from Cincinnati is reading The Dark Tower ~ KingFebruary 4, 2012 - 8:29pm
There's a world of difference between have a drink or three while writing and writing while your drunk.
My opinion is alcohol and writing don't mix well - but alcohol is a great treat for after a solid writing session. I am willing to drink gallons of coffee while I write. This has been the formula I have followed to produce my crappy fiction.
Jason has an attack bear and a raccoon spy named Skittles who is also telepathic.
I want an attack bear.
EDIT: Damn. I changed my name in honor of Alien and you can't even see it on the boards...
All of them? I'm awful at this game. Oh well.
But more on topic, I tried drinking and then writing for the first time last night. It really didn't work out so well, I couldn't focus and I kept going back and writing the same things over again. But I managed to not misspell anything, which was pretty surprising. I'll stick to caffeine.
Maybe there's a tolerance build up thing when it comes to alcohol and writing.
I could never write while I was drinking. Too much apathy. However, I did, once, try writing after smoking some weed. I wrote this little free-verse jewel.
Then the darkness covered him over.
Bunny rabbits were everywhere.
Jesus doesn't like it when I'm high.
Last night, pretty drunk, I wrote this e-mail to a friend (a girl):
I really want to call you right now and just scream:
DRUNK DIAL! DRUNK DIAL!
I feel that all capitals with exclamation points is redundant, but that's how damn drunk I am.
Loves,
-bh
ps. I'll knock you up.
---------------------
So, that's my drunk writing skills.
I usually think the stuff I write drunk is REALLY good. But I am generally told that I am wrong about this.
You're my hero Bryan. The drunk dial/ drunk text is SO underappreciated. How'd that work out for you?
I feel left out. I've never actually gotten up to much drunken shenanigans like drunk dialing after a night of heavy drinking. There was this time a house party I was at had the cops called on it, so a friend of mine convinced me to jump out a first story window into some bushes, but not before puking on a bathroom wall, because there were two toilets and I couldn't figure out which one was actually the toilet. I chose wrong.
Do people really get offended on here? If that's the case, they can go fuck themselves. Or wait, who was supposed to be offended?
I've been doing that sobriety thing. I wrote nearly every day when drinking, more upon post-drunk/hungover time than intoxicated time. I don't write every day or even close to that when sober. I write more in one sitting than I did drinking. The quality, I think maybe, is pretty much the same.
I don't know Renfield, man. Whatever the case i don't care about arguing. some people just like to watch confrontation. It doesn't matter though.
I think the occasional self shame that comes with the morning after is a good catalyst for writing sometimes.
And in the haze of alcoholic fury or love is a mindless expulsion of great creativity, I don't mind the editing a day later because its something that wouldn't have been wrote if i hadn't been drunk. And it's something that can be used or not. but least the option is there.
I'm drunk now. :p
There's a world of difference between have a drink or three while writing and writing while your drunk.