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[Anonymous No.13600556]

What's your opinion on writers using substances to fight off the block or anxiety? Anything from coffee, to beer, to wine, weed, hard drugs, etc.

>Lord Byron needed to have sex to write. He slept with 250 women and men in one year in Venice, and for each conquest, he took a clipping of his partner’s pubic hair and saved it in an envelope neatly marked with his or her name.

[Anonymous No.13600753]

>>13600556
you can be a degenerate and you can be a degenerate and write some shit, what is the big difference?

[Anonymous No.13600784]

Love the buzz a whole pot of coffee and a joint give me to write. For outlines and editing my own stuff I like to be sober. Alcohol also stifles inhibition makes dumping words on a page without feeling stupid or self-important.

[Anonymous No.13600785]

>>13600556
I use coffee to help stay awake while I read. I use weed to cope with my wageslave life when I’m not pursuing literature. That being said, didn’t Balzac drink, like, 40 cups of coffee a day?

[Anonymous No.13600872]

>>13600785
>I use weed to cope with my wageslave life when I’m not pursuing literature
I'm with ya, bud.
Recently, I think I've accepted that I have an addictive personality-- it's in my genes, my compulsions, etc. I honestly think I'm addicted to altered states: I just make sure not to take anything lethal, physically or rapidly addicting. Mainly, weed and psychs. Which, are nothing compared to my coffee and nicotine addiction. You don't have to shoot junk to be a junky: if I do anything semi habitual, it seems to just become apart of me. It's strange, half the time I think I just need something to do. Adult thumb sucking, if you will. This realization also helped me understand food and porn addiction.
Anyway, yeah.. it's a cope. Probably just another excuse not to do things that are good for me. I find myself taking 'smoke breaks' instead of writing quite often.
It's a grueling process.

[Anonymous No.13600880]

>>13600784
Baudelaire then?

[Anonymous No.13600885]

>>13600556
>He slept with 250 women and men in one year in Venice, and for each conquest, he took a clipping of his partner’s pubic hair and saved it in an envelope neatly marked with his or her name.
Based

[Anonymous No.13600893]

>>13600556
Do european women really have pubes? That’s so nasty

[Anonymous No.13600911]

When I'm editing I'll smoke weed to deliberate induce a state of anxiety, which makes me especially sensitive to cringy things I've written. It's not a pleasant experience, but it helps me eliminate the sentences I've deluded myself into thinking are good.

I've written on various drugs and wouldn't say that any of them improve my writing overall, but it's instructive to be able to see your writing in different altered states. It's the next best thing to erasing your memory and reading yourself like you're another person.

[Anonymous No.13600932]

>>13600893
everyone in the 1800s had pubes

[Anonymous No.13600974]

>>13600932
Yeah but enough to take a clipping?

[Anonymous No.13600982]

>>13600885
dilate

>>13600974
have sex

[Anonymous No.13600991]

>>13600974
Look up Demi Moore's nudes from the 1981 edition of Oui. People used think Hollywood waxing was for hookers trying to attract pedos when it started in the 90s.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.13601009]

>>13600893
Everyone still has pubic hairs
It’s not nasty.
Saving them in envelopes kinda is.

[Anonymous No.13601019]

>>13601009
>Saving them in envelopes kinda is.
>:3 on suicide watch

[Anonymous No.13601047]

>>13601009
It is disgusting. That’s why women have been getting rid of at least armpit and leg hair for ages.

[Anonymous No.13601227]

Y’all need to try kratom

[Anonymous No.13601238]

>>13601047
>t. homosexual lost in the closet section of Ikea

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.13601348]

>>13601047
Honestly though, I like it either way, I just don’t want to waste my time shaving or waxing all the damn time.

[Anonymous No.13602423]

>>13601009
Yikes.