What did he mean by this?

seems pretty clear to me.

i guess i should start writing.

>>7684587
Imbibe alcohol before creating, do not imbibe alcohol before revising.

>>7684587
write when you're drunk
edit said writing when you're not drunk

comprende amigo?

>>7684587
"I'm a hack star! I'm a hack star!"

Hemingway never said that

>>7684587
Make word-bunch be a good word-bunch; aint no word-bunch gotta be a hard word-bunch. There be a reason word-bunch say thing that word-bunch for smarts dont say.

–Ernest Hemingway

>>7684758
"They don't always say it be like it is, but it do."

-William Gaddis

>>7684604
you were there for all of his waking moments?

>>7684602
i miss david bowie

When you are drunk you are less inhibited and will write things that when sober you would doubt. Sometimes you may write an emotional gem. Edit sober so you clear away any filler and crap your drunk self thought was good.

>>7684790
Me too. He went out on a high note though.

When I was a general's aide I once wrote a report for him to give to some visiting congressmen while buzzed on weird Korean booze in violation of a no-fun-allowed order. I got rave reviews.

Generally I avoid writing while drinking though. Gives the will but takes away the ability etc.

dude write drunk edit sober lmao I'm so just like "Papa" Hemmingway!

>>7686349
Except he wouldn't drink when he was writing, only after. There is no evidence anywhere of Hemingway having said what is in OP's picture.

“My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing." A Moveable Feast.

>>7684763
He never said that nor did he write that six word story.

FOR

>>7685748
I can write poems drunk. Anything longer than that's too hard to focus on when I'm shitfaced.