Anybody else noticed how they write while drunk or high?

[Jorunn]

I don’t get drunk or high, so I may not be qualified to answer. But if I try to write when tired, I usually give up.

 

[Erozetta]

I don’t get drunk or high, so I may not be qualified to answer. But if I try to write when tired, I usually give up.

I usually end up with a lot of f's in the document randomly.

I call it the "Guess where Liz fell asleep while writing/editing" game.

 

[DanOkeffie]

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.

I was on Gabapentin but one of my dr's moved to Lyrica. I can't say that either medication did a thing for me but maybe I was too busted up after that motorcycle accident. a lot of surgeries later, and I'm off most medications. What does Gabapentin do for you?

 

[DanOkeffie]

I've never been high but I did get baked a couple of times. My pain dr wanted me off Oxy and switched me to medical pot. I've never smoked in my life nor did I want to start so they gave me the liquid 420. like an idiot, never felt a thing so took more and more and oh how wow I'm freaking baked...and I hated it

 

[Wonderer67]

I wrote a poem once for the 2023 weekly challenge when I was high.

I got high before dinner

And watched the A team.
It was the episode where Boy George was the guest star
It was so bad that it was almost…good!
Ridiculous, over the top
1980’s - edness
Murdoch pretending he was a disc jockey, then dressing in drag - I am not making this up
BA, sufferin no fools
It was so bad it was bad
Being high helped.
It may have been necessary.

Then jeopardy came on
God, I miss Trebek…
But I was locked in and on a roll right out the gate.
Lazer focused
My wife was fucking amazed
Till my mind wandered…
Two of the contestants were far more locked in than I
Poor lady in the middle wasn’t even a factor
Yogesh and uptight Michael
Duking it out
Back and forth
like a heavyweight fight
Two titans of jeopardy trading answer
For answer, like Ali and Frazier II
And me, barking out the answers,
(two seconds too late)

I got final jeopardy right tho
(The answer was ‘who is Tom Clancy’)
And Yogesh
Destroyed Michael
Crushed him out like a cigarette
He only bet $200
But knew the answer
And stood victorious at the end
The best final jeopardy I’d ever seen…

Then a college basketball game came on
The team in white was clicking
Just pulling away from team blue

But then a pivotal change in momentum…
It was all blue
You could see it in their body language
Strong, alert, focused, swagger…
Confident
And they erased an 11 point gap like it was nothing.

Then momentum shifted back to team white
Then they started going at it like Yogesh and Michael on jeopardy
Trading basket for basket
Back n forth…
Now showing some swagger of their own
The coaches were intense
Barking orders from mid court..
I was transfixed.
My wife was passively watching and keeping her books…

The announcers were dissecting every pass and shot
Sounding so authoritative
Gods of basketball knowledge…
I hung on their every word with amazement
My own basketball playing emotions,
We’re amplified by their passion.

It came down to the final possession.
My wife and I were literally
On the edges of our seats…
As team white sunk a basket w 2.5 second to go
Sealing the victory
One last dying, heave from blue
They must’ve been heartbroken…

It was too much for me…
I turned on a Spoon album and wrote this.
Had a few fits of the giggles as I wrote
Thinking back to final jeopardy
My wife was laughing at and maybe a little with me…
I got in a groove
And I thought
I was the greatest poet that had ever lived.
A genius
So damn profound
Able to articulate my experience in ways
That would make everything seem so alive
And fucking evocative.
I wrote descriptions that would make women wet
And then I re-read

This absolute
Horseshit.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I was on Gabapentin but one of my dr's moved to Lyrica. I can't say that either medication did a thing for me but maybe I was too busted up after that motorcycle accident. a lot of surgeries later, and I'm off most medications. What does Gabapentin do for you?

It feels like being drunk, but without a cloudy head. And more energy, I'm almost impelled to write [or do other things].

 

[JenniferSmithJones]

I wrote a poem once for the 2023 weekly challenge when I was high.

I got high before dinner

And watched the A team.
It was the episode where Boy George was the guest star
It was so bad that it was almost…good!
Ridiculous, over the top
1980’s - edness
Murdoch pretending he was a disc jockey, then dressing in drag - I am not making this up
BA, sufferin no fools
It was so bad it was bad
Being high helped.
It may have been necessary.

Then jeopardy came on
God, I miss Trebek…
But I was locked in and on a roll right out the gate.
Lazer focused
My wife was fucking amazed
Till my mind wandered…
Two of the contestants were far more locked in than I
Poor lady in the middle wasn’t even a factor
Yogesh and uptight Michael
Duking it out
Back and forth
like a heavyweight fight
Two titans of jeopardy trading answer
For answer, like Ali and Frazier II
And me, barking out the answers,
(two seconds too late)

I got final jeopardy right tho
(The answer was ‘who is Tom Clancy’)
And Yogesh
Destroyed Michael
Crushed him out like a cigarette
He only bet $200
But knew the answer
And stood victorious at the end
The best final jeopardy I’d ever seen…

Then a college basketball game came on
The team in white was clicking
Just pulling away from team blue

But then a pivotal change in momentum…
It was all blue
You could see it in their body language
Strong, alert, focused, swagger…
Confident
And they erased an 11 point gap like it was nothing.

Then momentum shifted back to team white
Then they started going at it like Yogesh and Michael on jeopardy
Trading basket for basket
Back n forth…
Now showing some swagger of their own
The coaches were intense
Barking orders from mid court..
I was transfixed.
My wife was passively watching and keeping her books…

The announcers were dissecting every pass and shot
Sounding so authoritative
Gods of basketball knowledge…
I hung on their every word with amazement
My own basketball playing emotions,
We’re amplified by their passion.

It came down to the final possession.
My wife and I were literally
On the edges of our seats…
As team white sunk a basket w 2.5 second to go
Sealing the victory
One last dying, heave from blue
They must’ve been heartbroken…

It was too much for me…
I turned on a Spoon album and wrote this.
Had a few fits of the giggles as I wrote
Thinking back to final jeopardy
My wife was laughing at and maybe a little with me…
I got in a groove
And I thought
I was the greatest poet that had ever lived.
A genius
So damn profound
Able to articulate my experience in ways
That would make everything seem so alive
And fucking evocative.
I wrote descriptions that would make women wet
And then I re-read

This absolute
Horseshit.

Five stars and favorited for the humor!

 

[WCSGarland]

If Hemingway could write drunk, so can anybody else.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I was on Gabapentin but one of my dr's moved to Lyrica. I can't say that either medication did a thing for me but maybe I was too busted up after that motorcycle accident. a lot of surgeries later, and I'm off most medications. What does Gabapentin do for you?

It allows me to speak and eat.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Anybody else noticed how they write while drunk or high?​

I’ve never been high. Took one drag on some weed in college and coughed for an hour after (I’m asthamtic). I have been drunk once or twice. Based on some of my drunk posting here (e.g. WTF is cool about cuck?) writing when inebriated would be a very bad idea.