Can booze help us write novels better

[RayneStorm]

I wouldn't know. I've never been drunk before and I have no intention of ever being drunk. Alcohol tastes disgusting

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I wouldn't know. I've never been drunk before and I have no intention of ever being drunk. Alcohol tastes disgusting

Understandable. We all have different tastes.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Booze can loosen the grip of a sadistic editor brain (ie: writer's block) for a time, but don't use it as a crutch. That crutch will break, and you will fall, and it'll be hard getting back up again (writing-wise).

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

I wouldn't know. I've never been drunk before and I have no intention of ever being drunk. Alcohol tastes disgusting

I don't drink for the taste but the effects.

 

[RayneStorm]

I don't drink for the taste but the effects.

I've tried wine and beer. Maybe one glass wasn't enough but I never got those effects. I have hallucinated on prescription medication before (prescribed by my doctor who apparently forgot I couldn't take certain things) and that was not fun at all. Worse yet, I didn't even get any good content for a story. You'd think at the very least I would have gotten one idea

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

I wouldn't know. I've never been drunk before and I have no intention of ever being drunk. Alcohol tastes disgusting

Go for the "girly drinks" and screw everyone who calls you out for not flagellating your pallet with stuff made for "real men": mudslides, margaritas, grasshoppers, anything with ice-cream and mint and stuff that also incorporates a base with 35% alc/vol or higher for faster effects with less actual drinking required. Just go slow with the sweeter stuff because you might drink too much at a time, and don't ruin yourself.

In all honesty though, alcohol and drunkenness is overhyped, just like sex and probably weed.

 

[RayneStorm]

Go for the "girly drinks" and screw everyone who calls you out for not flagellating your pallet with stuff made for "real men": mudslides, margaritas, grasshoppers, anything with ice-cream and mint and stuff that also incorporates a base with 35% alc/vol or higher for faster effects with less actual drinking required. Just go slow with the sweeter stuff because you might drink too much at a time, and don't ruin yourself.

In all honesty though, alcohol and drunkenness is overhyped, just like sex and probably weed.

I did try a pink strawberry milkshake drink thing that was okay but I still couldn't see myself drinking it again. Alcohol is expensive and doesn't taste good. Why would I want to drink it?

I think when it comes to writing, there's a lot of focus on the technical aspect and a lot of times you'd find yourself writing a scene and it's boring but you think it's necessary. I find that thinking of the coolest thing possible and writing that instead works as a much greater motivator. I see a lot of novels where it takes three chapters for us to finally get to the murder when really, the murder is where the book should have started. Trying to be too academic with writing really holds back on a fun story. I'd rather read a fun story wrote simply than beautiful prose of someone brushing their teeth. And it's writing. Alien zombie mermaids are not off the table no matter what anyone tells you

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

I did try a pink strawberry milkshake drink thing that was okay but I still couldn't see myself drinking it again. Alcohol is expensive and doesn't taste good. Why would I want to drink it?

This is so true. If I hadn't already gotten a taste for coffee, and didn't like how it smells I wouldn't tolerate the stuff even if it can get me WIRED when I to be. Oftentimes people drink to get hammered as an escape or a "motivator" and that's reason enough for them to eat the cost to their lifespan and coinpurse waitwrongreality wallets. Booze ain't glam and if you don't want to drink at all, don't let people pressure you. My friends oftentimes try to drag me into a bar, it's never fun. For me, at least.

I think when it comes to writing, there's a lot of focus on the technical aspect and a lot of times you'd find yourself writing a scene and it's boring but you think it's necessary. I find that thinking of the coolest thing possible and writing that instead works as a much greater motivator. I see a lot of novels where it takes three chapters for us to finally get to the murder when really, the murder is where the book should have started. Trying to be too academic with writing really holds back on a fun story. I'd rather read a fun story wrote simply than beautiful prose of someone brushing their teeth. And it's writing. Alien zombie mermaids are not off the table no matter what anyone tells you

Also true. When possible, writing should be its own reward, it's own pleasure. If you're not making something you want to read, you'd better be making money off of it, or learning, or teaching others, or benefiting in some kind of way or your wasting your limited lifespan.

Alien zombie mermaids, huh?

I could make porn of that.

 

[RayneStorm]

This is so true. If I hadn't already gotten a taste for coffee, and didn't like how it smells I wouldn't tolerate the stuff even if it can get me WIRED when I to be. Oftentimes people drink to get hammered as an escape or a "motivator" and that's reason enough for them to eat the cost to their lifespan and coinpurse waitwrongreality wallets. Booze ain't glam and if you don't want to drink at all, don't let people pressure you. My friends oftentimes try to drag me into a bar, it's never fun. For me, at least.


Also true. When possible, writing should be its own reward, it's own pleasure. If you're not making something you want to read, you'd better be making money off of it, or learning, or teaching others, or benefiting in some kind of way or your wasting your limited lifespan.

Alien zombie mermaids, huh?

I could make porn of that.

I don't think the flow state is talked about enough. That's when you get so into the writing you lose track of time. Few people know how to get into that flow state but if you ever wonder how someone managed to write 10k words in a day, at least one of their writing sessions would have entered the flow state. Alcohol isn't how to get into that state though. It's fun. When you reach that scene in the story that you've been wanting to write since you came up with the idea or when you reach a scene and come up with a way to make it cooler that sends you down a path of pure enjoyment, that's the flow state. The flow state is like getting high on the act of writing.

I have in fact wrote in zombie mermaids into a pirate story I published some time ago. It was fun

 

[BewareTheChain]

I'm drunk right now, and it appears to be working.