It is true. I do my best writing when I'm inebriated. That's just the way it is.
If you go back through my posts and find posts where my writing is very eloquent, if you find posts where my prose is awesome, you will most likely have found a post I wrote when I was inebriated.
I'm not the only great drunk writer, history has a stream of legendary and inebriated writers.
There's something in the inebriated experience that opens us up to a flow of our thoughts. At least in my case, my thoughts just flow. They flow and I type as the thoughts come to mind.
Many years ago when I was in Chabot College I took a course in English. Actually an advanced English course. It wasn't meant for those just learning English. It was meant for those who already had a good command of the English language. You could say it was an English literature course.
One of my text books was titled "Thinking in Writing." The text book's emphasis was on putting our thoughts into writing. Literally, to write as we think. And that is what I do when I write my best posts. I'm sincerely putting my beliefs, my thoughts, my emotions, my feelings into what I write.
I know that these are great posts because when I return to them, sometimes years later, and re-read them, I get caught up in the flow. I re-read them and experience the same thoughts, emotions, and feelings I did when I wrote the post.
Strangely, these posts are always written during those times when I'm inebriated.
Many times I have tried to write a great post while clean and sober, and the prose just isn't there. The flow of thoughts and emotions just isn't there.
When I'm clean and sober I'm more analytical. I'm more robotic. While clean and sober I can be a good technical writer, a good instructional writer, etc. But for my emotions and feelings to really go into my writing I have to be inebriated. This is when my emotions and feelings really come out.
My best writing is when I'm inebriated.
Source: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-inebriated-podcast_1
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