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Hollie Kagey's avatar

Well, haha no, but it's great for creativity and I find it best (for me) to table it for the next day to re-edit my writing, sober. I had noticed it, I had made alot of mistakes.

Being a little drunk is funny but soberity is heroic.

Cheers, to knowledge!

Hollie Kagey's avatar

See and typos on the keyboard, I missed. I'm not perfect and not bot.

Hollie Kagey's avatar

Haha..you're a bot, right? You have a right to your opinion but it's not fact and do you talk to people this way to their face or just to strangers online so you can hide? Just curious 🤔

Jacob Bartlett's avatar

Writing and drinking is one of life’s great pleasures

Ryan M's avatar

I don’t think Twain could have put it any better

YNB's avatar

This statement might be the wisest line I've read on Substack so far

Jacob Bartlett's avatar

Draft drunk, edit sober

Absurdly G's avatar

That's my secret. I'm always a little drunk...

David Glenn Cox's avatar

Hemmingway wrote while fully drunk. Five pages describing the paint on the side of a boat.

John Malcolm Humberstone's avatar

Not really something I've tried quite a sobering thought

Michele McGurrin's avatar

I don’t drink any alcohol…

u.n. owen's avatar

...so I can't read.

RobertTheWemyss's avatar

Good evening, and welcome to the Arthur Ludlow Memorial Baths, Newport, for this year's finals of the All-England Summarize Proust Competition. As you may remember, each contestant has to give a brief summary of Proust's 'A La Recherche du Temps Perdu', once in a swimsuit and once in evening dress. - Monty Python

Jonathan's avatar

Only when I’m stone cold sober. Holding onto the specific nuances of a scene and character experience requires my full emersion. That being said, images and iteration of scenes and element flow a lot better after I’ve come down off of psychedelics. Here is my latest: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathan734483/p/ares-the-arm-and-the-cat?r=2td83l&utm_medium=ios

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Jun 7, 2025
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Jonathan's avatar

I just tired, I’m having a hard time with the grammar structure. Can you do a pass on that and I’ll try again. 👍

Janet L. Cucharo's avatar

I stopped drinking my Jim Beam every afternoon and I lost one of my writing muses. I've also "quit" smoking my 2 packs a day and also lost the other one. 😞

BeatsVille USA's avatar

I write all the time...I've learned to simulate drunkenness. Like monkey style Kung fu

Bordas da Alma's avatar

Proust on a train, tennis in the rain, dead birds in the park, suddenly, my weekend feels underdressed.

Dan Weston's avatar

No, sometimes I write when totally drunk.

Ryan M's avatar

I’d rather write and drink than write amd judge

Sergii Starodubtsev's avatar

Added to my good read toto list, thanks 🙏

Sergii Starodubtsev's avatar

I mean The Search 🔎 for lost time ⌚.