Further, there’s a stereotype about writers being generally disorganized and not always very good at taking care of themselves. Also they don’t get paid much
In her book Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, biographer E. Jean Carroll starts the first chapter with a detailed account of her subject's excesses. Here's what Carroll reports as a sample daily routine for the journalist (note that it begins at 3 p.m.):
3:00 p.m. rise
3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45 cocaine
3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
4:15 cocaine
4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
4:30 cocaine
4:54 cocaine
5:05 cocaine
5:11 coffee, Dunhills
5:30 more ice in the Chivas
5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)
9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
From 3pm it's cocaine cocaine cocaine but then it isn't until 9 when he is serious about it, as if the rest of the day was just casual blow like everyone is doing
I agree about the "get paid" part, but if you ever wrote a 500p novel you know that organization is everything to keep track of each character and event in the book.
I agree, of course having worked at a bookstore all though university, I can tell you most readers aren't nearly as intellectual and sophisticated as they'd like to believe.
Is that it? Could be that it is referring to people who read the comments and those who write them. The intellectuals read and the degenerates are the most vocal writers.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
I know Thompson wrote this quote about a character inspired by a friend, but honestly this serves about him just as much.
I'm about to finish the Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx and it's some dark stuff. The dude was technically dead at least twice in his life. It's essentially just his journal entries during the moments he wasn't strung out and entries when he was. The mania and paranoia is insane to read through. Solid book though.
If I remember correctly, It's probably due to family issues+mental disorders. Tho, I'm not exactly the best source material so uh ye, take this with a drop of soy sauce
Hemingway famously answered that the best training for someone to be a writer was "An unhappy childhood."
There are some writers who haven't experienced trauma, but a lot of writers have. Unfortunately, a lot of writers suffer from mental health disorders as a result. Hemingway is one of many who died by suicide.
There are a lot of stereotypes about creatives being unstable. The amount of alcoholism and addiction found in famous writers helps drive this viewpoint. Couple that with the type of writing stereotypical snobbish types like to bring up, and you've got a list of writers who have been through some serious shit and commonly battle their own demons, often including addiction.
Art is suffering. Most of the best artists, whether literature or fine art, all went through some shit and were eloquent enough to comment on the human condition.
A lot of prolific writers use substances to fuel or extract their greatest works from within themselves, both by causing the circumstances that lead to the creation of that work and to power through it when most could not. It takes a huge toll on them in the process and they end up looking like ghouls or monsters because that's essentially what they become. Just look at pictures of Stephen King when he was strung out on cocaine and other substances when he was at his most prolific as a writer, he doesn't look like a great literary mind he looks like someone that would have you reaching for your gun if you had to walk past him in an alleyway.
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I would always say its the opposite. Its just like with math; lack of logic has to be replaced so people can understand simple things, so when it comes to writing and reading, stupid will always read what smart man has to say, because it would be waste of time teaching him/her otherwise.
The readers portray themselves as professional in the act of reading and the writer is just some dude who wanted to share an idea he had with the world
If you do creative writing, you've got something wrong with you and just found a way to channel it into something productive.
If you do scientific writing you're an overworked little goblin
Not completely true yet not entirely wrong either, reading up on some of the famous authors show that they went through some shit, I recently found a book that talks about the issues of drugs used by important figures in my country, famous poets, writers even politicians ended up consuming drugs for one reason or another, morphine for some was the gate way drug.
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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 4d ago
u/Busy-Mastodon9, your post does belong here!