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

My diary unfortunately

>>8308277
I'm an alcoholic and a bad writer. Not sure if I can answer your question though.

>>8308277
is it necessary to be a good writer if you want to be an alcoholic

>>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.

>>8308277
alcohol can help, but alcoholism is an impediment

>>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.

>>8308277
Nope.

Write drunk, edit sober.

--Hemingway

>>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

If I were an alcoholic, me, I'd eat scotch eggs.

is it necessary to be retarded if you want to post on 4chan

>>8309656
Scotch eggs are one of my favourite drinking foods. They're convenient.

>>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

It's 2016. Alcohol is old news. Look into RCs and other POMO drugs IF you need drugs.

Write drunk
edit drunk
publish drunk
donate to NASA

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>>8309422
probably, you need something to justify your rampant alchoholism to not be a hated drunk

>>8308277
Hitchens certainly thought so, and he died before he could write anything that wasn't trotskyist bullshit

>>8308277
DFW was