Anybody else noticed how they write while drunk or high?

[JenniferSmithJones]

I ask because I've noticed when I write drunk or high (or both) I have great ideas, but become overly loquacious. Like my drunk psyche channels Bulwer-Lytton (Famous for taking twelve paragraphs to convey one sentence of actual story).

Y'all may have read one or two postings I made here in AH that underscore my point.

ANYWAY: drunk or high sometimes = great ideas, but requires an axe for all the cutting away in the editing.

Another writer I know says she cannot write without a glass of wine on the desk. She doesn't drink the wine. It's for her muse! And she's dead serious about it!

I guess, like doctors, athletes, musicians, actors, etc: whatever makes you think you are doing your favorite thing better, probably IS making you do your favorite thing better.

For any who may be preparing charts: At the moment I'm only slightly buzzed. But I'm working on it!

 

[iwatchus]

I do not write under the influence of anything more than my own messed up neurochemicals. But those are enough to convince me I have great ideas (when I don't) and to get way overly wordy. I just need to find a way to not be like that. You at least get to sober up.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

Never written while drunk, but I don't love alcohol and only drink twice a year [NYE and my birthday].

I've written while stoned. I assume it has a different character to my sober writing--an online friend of mine has asked me not to talk to them when I'm stoned because the way I talk makes them uncomfortable. I don't want to dig into it and ask them what about my communication while high makes them feel like that, so I haven't asked.

Gabapentin [I'm prescribed it, but I mostly take it recreationally] makes the muses come out and I can write very quickly. Though it leads to mistakes and I have to slow down, get control over my fingers and not just speed across the keyboard frantically.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I don't do either or any of those things.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Gabapentin [I'm prescribed it, but I mostly take it recreationally] makes the muses come out and I can write very quickly. Though it leads to mistakes and I have to slow down, get control over my fingers and not just speed across the keyboard frantically.

I'm confused, how can you take gabapentine recreationally? It doesn't even have any warnings about not operating a vehicle until you know how it'll affect you.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I'm confused, how can you take gabapentine recreationally? It doesn't even have any warnings about not operating a vehicle until you know how it'll affect you.

Do it the right way and it's similar to feeling drunk, but without the cloudy headspace.

This is how I first learned about its fun side.

ETA: More information on the drug in general here: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Gabapentin

 

[NuclearFairy]

Do it the right way and it's similar to feeling drunk, but without the cloudy headspace.

This is how I first learned about its fun side.

I think, I'll stick to taking it normally.

Although, it is nice to know that I can make it more effective by eating more fat with it. But wait, I have no gallbladder. Never mind, I'll just stick to adding ice packs when my face acts up.

 

[JenniferSmithJones]

I do not write under the influence of anything more than my own messed up neurochemicals. But those are enough to convince me I have great ideas (when I don't) and to get way overly wordy. I just need to find a way to not be like that. You at least get to sober up.

Me? Sobering up? I appreciate the thought. I agree it is a theoretical possibility. But ... I wouldn't put too much faith in that ...

 

[MrPixel]

I don't drink... much. Once or twice a week I'll enjoy a "fishbowl" margarita with lunch. Sometimes the light buzz will get my muse's attention if I'm stuck on a turn of phrase to move a story along, as it did this afternoon.

Otherwise, intoxicants haven't had much of a role in my life, 'cept the time a half-dozen stewardesses flight attendants got me absolutely shitfaced for my 30th. You'd immediately think that was a setup for a "truly fun evening." It wasn't. After the third Greyhound I spent most of the time calling Ralph on the big white phone. Haven't touched vodka OR grapefruit juice in the many years since. It was bad.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I may find out soon. After a trip to a pot-legal state my wife brought us home some cannabis capsules. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[WCSGarland]

I do most of my writing while under the alfluence of incahol. I don't recall having a twin though.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I ask because I've noticed when I write drunk or high (or both) I have great ideas, but become overly loquacious. Like my drunk psyche channels Bulwer-Lytton (Famous for taking twelve paragraphs to convey one sentence of actual story).

Y'all may have read one or two postings I made here in AH that underscore my point.

ANYWAY: drunk or high sometimes = great ideas, but requires an axe for all the cutting away in the editing.

Another writer I know says she cannot write without a glass of wine on the desk. She doesn't drink the wine. It's for her muse! And she's dead serious about it!

I guess, like doctors, athletes, musicians, actors, etc: whatever makes you think you are doing your favorite thing better, probably IS making you do your favorite thing better.

For any who may be preparing charts: At the moment I'm only slightly buzzed. But I'm working on it!

No, it makes everything worse. There's a reason for the drunk driving laws. Arguably sex is better with pot but it gets progressively worse with alcohol. Even pot is often cut with so many other things that the effects can be very unsettling.

Apparently legalized pot in New York has resulted in higher prices because of taxes and other regulations. People prefer the local dealer, even if he mixes in some PCP or other nightmare. "Trank" (an animal tranquilizer) is moving into my neighborhood I think. You won't be able to walk much less write on substances like that.

 

[Erozetta]

*sits in the sober corner taking notes.*

 

[WCSGarland]

*sits in the sober corner taking notes.*

heh, everybody else looks as wobbly as me... must mean I'm in good company...

 

[JenniferSmithJones]

I may find out soon. After a trip to a pot-legal state my wife brought us home some cannabis capsules. I'll let you know how it goes.

D8 makes you mellow. At peace. If you're over 55 and have had trouble sleeping through the night? D8 will let you. It's bliss.

D9 makes you mellow. Unless you're a writer, then the bitch you call a keyboard will be demanding your attention all night long ... while ... also feeling relaxed, somehow ... you know ...?

 

[JenniferSmithJones]

*sits in the sober corner taking notes.*

A wise policy! In the world of Erotica, one should very much always look before one leaps! All manner of later histrionics may be averted. Things more fun to write about, than to witness or experience.

 

[SimonDoom]

I enjoy evening cocktails, and I've tried writing having had a few two many. It's not good. It dulls and confuses the mind, and my fingers don't work as well on the keyboard.

 

[WCSGarland]

I don't know that I get loquacious while I'm blitzed, but the ideas definitely flow better... might require further editing, but otherwise it's more like - eh, fuck, that doesn't sound good while I try writing sober. Or maybe that's just drunk me telling sober me that I write better while drunk.

 

[DeMont]

I ask because I've noticed when I write drunk or high (or both) I have great ideas, but become overly loquacious. Like my drunk psyche channels Bulwer-Lytton (Famous for taking twelve paragraphs to convey one sentence of actual story).

Y'all may have read one or two postings I made here in AH that underscore my point.

ANYWAY: drunk or high sometimes = great ideas, but requires an axe for all the cutting away in the editing.

Another writer I know says she cannot write without a glass of wine on the desk. She doesn't drink the wine. It's for her muse! And she's dead serious about it!

I guess, like doctors, athletes, musicians, actors, etc: whatever makes you think you are doing your favorite thing better, probably IS making you do your favorite thing better.

For any who may be preparing charts: At the moment I'm only slightly buzzed. But I'm working on it!

@JenniferSmithJones,
I have to say, probably unfortunately, no. I need my wits about me and my thought processes like a knife edge when I write. In short, if I'm drinking I'm drinking with the sole intention of getting buzzed or hammered. I have no creativity when I'm hammered.
Respectfully,
D.

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

I mostly write sober but find sex scenes a bit more enjoyable to write after a drink.

This probably applies to almost everything in life... except driving.

 

[StillStunned]

I usually get more of a buzz from writing than from alcohol.