Authorship and Alcoholism always go together. Why is that?

confirmation bias. stop justifying your bad behavior

>>8148644
When did I ever suggest I was an alcoholic? I didn't.

>>8148646

we're all friends here anon. how much have you had to drink today?

>>8148652
How much have you?

It happens that personalities probe abusing alcohol are also personalities prone to abuse the unsuspecting suspecting public with their stupid thoughts and opinions in writing form. By accident of sheer volume it sometimes seems to turn out well.

>>8148637
Because the "literary lifestyle" is so shitty it makes you want a drink or 10. I haven't had any this week but I'll probably end up getting a half bottle of cognac or something next week.

>>8148637
>alcohol made me do it

Alcoholism and literature do not correlate.

Often times though, alcohol and dysfunction do correlate and dysfunction is necessary for some people to remove themselves from the ideas of the default and regular fuckers who have perfectly normal lives and strive to be lawyers and accountants. It isnt absolutely necessary that a terrific author be a complete mess, but many times a complete mess can become a great author by his complex and troubled life.

>>8148725

You're just gonna get half a bottle?

writing and drinking are cool af

it's only natural that authors, cool people, do both

>>8148644
BTFO
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>>8149691
>regular fuckers who have perfectly normal lives and strive to be lawyers and accountants.

>>8149740
He'll just walk into the liquor store, pour out half the bottle, take the remainder to the clerk, and say, "One half bottle, please. I'm being literary."

He'll then open up his velcro wallet, take out the money his mother her gave him for pizza that night (Saturday's are mommy's going out nights, so anon gets pizza) and pay the man.

He will spend the night in jail because you cannot buy half a fucking bottle.

>>8149870
>strive

What is the 40oz OE 800 of literature and why is it Robert Ludlum

>>8150309
>i
well-spooked.

I kicked the writing habit but I still have ~12 drinks a day desu.

>>8149870
>perfectly normal
>slaps his meat to sonic porn

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>>8149691
>Alcoholism and literature do not correlate.

>>8148637
Not always. Lovecraft never touched alcohol.
Anyway... I do agree that writers tend to drink. I'm a nobody but when I write I am usually drunk. But even though I'm a nobody I can understand why the famous drunk writers were who they were.

If I had to make a guess based on my experiences it would be this: I'm not stupid but I am deathly tired of life; drinking helps shut it off but drinking also makes me release a lot of internalized things. Writing is a medium of expression any literate person can do (I mean that making a film or song, while great mediums, requires more money/equipment). So you mix these ideas and... you get people who write when drunk.

>>8149870
kafka was a lot of things but a normie was not one of them

i want to die everyday

>>8150255
>What is a 350ml bottle

>>8150745
A whole small bottle.

>>8150740
this

>>8150750
You're doing the autism thing. People refer to 350ml bottles of liquor as half-bottles. You can get quarter bottles too, but not three-quarter bottles.

We're good at writing because we're sensitive to some sort of emotions that we can tap into and express.
We drink to block out the emotions when they hurt too much.

>>8150751
this

>>8150756
Haha, gay.

>>8150775
What a great post, thank you. This is a great post.

>>8150779
Thanks :)

Obviously because both are methods used to cope with inner struggles, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they often go together.

>>8150752
500ml bottles exist lad

>>8148637
Alcoholism is a trait of narcissists

>>8151280
uhhhhhhhh ok lol

>>8151284
Should have made it more clear; writing especially with hopes of being published is a narcisstic trait, also why the authors with alcohol problems tend to be narcissists, clinically depressed, or both

>>8151298
>>8151298
That's not really narcissism, though. There are depressed people who are narcissists, but that doesn't necessarily mean all people who are depressed are narcissists. Or all authors, really. You'd be more likely to find writers who have profoundly negative views of their life choices and their work, than positive.

>>8150745

They're 375 ml bottles, anon, not 350.

>>8150597
Lovecraft was not a writer

>>8148637
It helps you cope with the more subtle realities if your inherent nature as a person and an individual.
Just like marijuana helps with abstract forms of literature (highly metaphorical) due to the solidity that abstract thought takes while high.
Mix a little alcohol, pot, and a small dose of cocaine or meth, and you're writing pages and pages of highly cerebral thought as if it's stream of consciousness.

Fun times.

>>8151428
Yeah. A standard-sized full bottle is typically 750 and a halfbottle is 375 (half of that).

>>8150756
no one here is good at writing

>>8152118
I can't write while stoned.

>>8150783
same

>>8152493
Nah, unless, like I said, you're on Addy too, you don't write while high but write afterwards what you take from it.

>>8152118
I just get sick if I mix pot an alcohol. Would coke help with that, or would I just end up sicker?

>>8152118
>meth
>ever
No meth addict has ever produced anything worthwhile
And man, it fucks your whole life up
As for cocaine, go for it

I don't really understand the whole alcohol and writing thing. For me, alcohol causes me to regress to a more childish state. I guess that explains Hemingway's writing.

I do like writing stoned though. I'm definitely more playful and goofy, which is a nice change of pace. Can't really smoke often though because it makes me paranoid/delusional/anxious.

>>8152118
Can't recall the exact quote but my man Thompson called out weed hardcore... He said he can write under the influence of all the other drugs he's done but weed was the one drug that he had some difficult writing with

After writing under the influence of cocaine, ecstasy, acid, weed, alcohol, and some rcs I can agree pot is the one drug that makes writing difficult

So yeah, don't write when you're stoned. It's not that fun and you just end up forgetting 90% of what you wanted to write.

Also cocaine and acid are fun to write under

This is now a drugs thread

>>8152982
>also acid is fun to write under
this is now an i'm 12 years old thread

everyone knows opiates are the true patrician drug. fuckin scrubs.

>>8152986
You forgot cocaine. Cocaine is fun too. Ever done coke, anon?

>>8148637
Marijuana fucks with images, alcohol fucks with concepts. Therefore, image based artists inject mariuanas and concept based artists snort alcohol.

>>8148637
You get over the anxiety of writing and just put it out there

>>8152808
Didn't Philip K Dick do meth?

depression senpai

i'll take anything to not feel this way, and get my productivity back even if just for a couple hours.

Authors are usually weirdo outsiders.

Weirdo outsiders are more prone to addiction in general.

>>8152759
A little bump of coke definitely helps. >>8152808
Adderall is a hell of a drug.

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Patricians abuse Pregabalin.

>>8153072
Philip K Dick did everything but I don't think he did meth. Unless anybody has a source that can prove me wrong?

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>>8152808
>No meth addict has ever produced anything worthwhile

>>8154174
>tfw you wanted to post hitler but you post a qt mulatto with nice tits instead

jewed myself lads

>>8151424
That's not what narcissism is.

>>8148658
Yeah, I think this is the closest thing we have to the root here. There's certainly a wide host of factors that are in play but people who like to drivel their "great ideas" and people who like to selfishly drown themselves are just plain and simple nonconforming egomaniacs.. Which is fine.

>>8154174
Spooky mulattos make my dick hard. Why are they so spooky??

Because writers are usually miserable people.

And miserable people like to drink/do drugs. For obvious reasons.

>>8148644

mighty high up on your high horse there

it makes you feel like a cowboy

This only tends to be the case with second-rate authors like Hemingway and Bukowski. Compare them to true masters like Proust and Flaubert, who weren't alcoholics.

>>8156232
this :(

>>8156232
i am rich and i like to use alcohol and drugs. So what?