Why, In Order To Be A Writer, D'You Need To Be Drunk, Stoned Or Crazy?

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Magus

Next you'll be saying Jesus killed 1,000 Romans with the jawbone of an ass

Holy shit, I think I just got converted guys.

[Seil]

You're all messed up, says this observer.

[phil_]

What am I doing wrong? I've been trying to write something for, like, three years now, and I can't come up with anything I don't hate. I'm drunk every night; I should at least have a haiku by now. Help me out.

vvEdit: That doesn't help at all; what the hell?

[Seil]

There's this totally strict restaurant manager, see? And alla his employees are self righteous teenagers who think they're gonna get back at him by quitting all at once. Then they totally do that. The manager hires on career staff, but they want better pay. So the manager tries to juggle the needs of his new staff while playing everything down to the old staff that's coming in to eat.

...Why is color=poetry green?

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Magus

Confusing Exodus and Mark, Jagos? Next you'll be saying Jesus killed 1,000 Romans with the jawbone of an ass before writing his epistle to the Ephesians and hanging a red thread outside his window so he wouldn't be harmed when he blew a trumpet to knock down the walls of Jerusalem.

And he was saved by Jay and Silent Bob!

From Ninjas!

With Pirate hats!

[Magus]

Originally Posted by BloodyMage

You forgot Samuel Taylor Coleridge...maybe...

It is well-known that Coleridge was high off his ass on opium when he thought up Kubla Khan, but only managed to write down 50 lines before getting distracted by something. He subsequently had forgotten the other 500 lines or whatever by the time he thought to write them down again.

Not sure if he was high or not when writing Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

[BloodyMage]

It's also well known that people focus far too much on Coleridge's opium addition and tend not to see anything in his work other than attempting to recreate the effect of being high. According to some critics it has nothing at all to do with opium, but rather the creative process in which an idea erupts into the mind, seemingly from nothing, and seems to decay almost instantly from the moment of conception, unless it written down. Although, it generally depends on who you ask.

[Magus]

I'm sure Coleridge wrote lots of stuff when he wasn't high on opium. Kubla Khan just wasn't one of them. Besides which because he was so deliriously stoned he forgot to write down the rest of it, robbing us of it now, so I wasn't defending his use of opiates as "good" for his writing.

[BloodyMage]

I didn't say you were. I was saying that the idea that Kubla Khan is all to do with grasping on to a dying opium dream is widely panned by literary critics.

[Bells]

Stephanie Meyers and J. K. Rollings

There. I just Broke your Logic.

...wait... oh.