>get a bunch of good writing done
>it's only cause I was high on adderall
Will I have to be high every time I want to write?!?!?!?
I can't live like a junkie!!!!
>get a bunch of good writing done. >it's only cause I was high on adderall
>get a bunch of good writing done
>it's only cause I was high on adderall
Will I have to be high every time I want to write?!?!?!?
I can't live like a junkie!!!!
You could try catching tuberculosis like many great writers.
Were you also high when you assessed whether or not it was good?
I was think about the Paul erdos story where he couldn't do any math the month he wasn't doing stimulants. He's always portrayed as a quirky little guy but I'm pretty sure he was just zooted 24/7
Erdos also took antidepressants to deal with the stimulant comedown at the end of each day. . . .
W H Auden and P K Dick liked stimulants, but I don't care much for their work
Will this really work? TB improves cognition?
>Erdos also took antidepressants
I wasn't recommending living like erdos. If anything the opposite, I was pointing out how many of his idiosyncracies and personality quirks were probably symptoms of his drug addiction instead of a manifestation of his childlike nature which is how they are usually portrayed.
>Will this really work? TB improves cognition?
Kafka said something to the effect that it was the greatest blessing of his life (I think I read it in one of the Stach biographies, but it quoted a letter by Kafka directly)
you? seems like adderall is doing the writing, not you..
>TB was called the “artist's disease” and was linked with creativity and the bohemian life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tuberculosis_cases#Writers_and_poets
Imagine knowing when you will approximately die and coughing up blood ..
you say we should differentiate pre-blood-coughing-Kafka and blood-coughing-Kaka (August 1917)?
>Will this really work? TB improves cognition?
Nah aids is the artist's disease of the 21st century
>Erdos also took antidepressants to deal with the stimulant comedown at the end of each day.
What? The only antidepressants that existed then were MAOIs and he certainly would not have been taken them unless he wanted to protract the duration and suffer 10x higher sensitivity the following days with the likely outcome being hypertensive crisies and death, especially with benzedrine.
Survivorship bias. At one point, TB killed one out of seven people, but you don't hear about any but the famous
What do you mean, lots of them died of TB. Lawrence being one
. Bronte sisters died of it. There's no survivor bias about it. It's the muses' bacterium.
Getting a death sentence like TB is probably a kind of imposed deadline on you forcing you to actually get some work done.
>I can't live like a junkie!!!!
Yes you can.
do you have adhd
Yes ofc do you
You need to basically live a life that is "fueling you" and it will give you a high with lot's of energy. The way you're currently living (your current pattern) isn't giving you much energy (pretty normal) so you need a substance to counteract that. So either be a junkie or get the REAL thing.
anyone else ascended from staying 3 days straight on these talking to gpt
What did you learn
Worked for Stephen King and Paul Erdos.
Cocaine tends to make my writing dramatic and assertive. Much like another known user, Raoul Duke.
>Hunter S Thompson whines all his life, like a little b***h, and when the political scene changed a bit so he lost all his bearings and couldn't get them back because his brain was swiss cheese from all the drugs & alcohol --- he killed himself
ok drama queen
All men die, few men truly live. His life was more interesting than yours, and he got more pussy. Deal with it.
>fricking crack prostitutes just to prove he's not gay
I don't know anon, I don't know
reminds me of a story my dad told me
>my dad and his 2 friends tripping on acid one day
>my dad playing sega genesis with friend A for like 6 hours
>friend B just sits quietly in the corner the entire time
>friend B looks up
>my dad and friend A look at him
>friend B shouts "I'M! NOT! GAY!" and runs out of the room
glory days and all
good one
I've seen a meme like that but it was with a black man
>he got more pussy
and yet he was suicidal, so maybe banging junkies wasn't the road to everlasting bliss you think it is
He committed suicide at 67. The world would be a much, much better place if everyone followed his lead. There's just no need to be that fricking old. You had your time, move over and make room for everyone else.
>good writing
Switch to modafinil, does the same thing as adderall but without a lot of the downsides. It's also harder to get hooked on or abuse, taking more than 600mg only makes your heart beat faster.
What about Vyvanse? I've heard good things about it.
What about Ritalin? It is similar with cocaine.
>Will I have to be high every time I want to write?!?!?!?
>I can't live like a junkie!!!!
Most writers were either drug-addicts or degenerates of another fashion. Often both. Ian Fleming was described as "a drinker with an unfortunate writing habit".
I used to write a lot on Adderall and crystal meth. Key words: a lot. I shit out volume, most of it was trash. Not necessarily word salad but something close to it in the form of nigh-unreadable stream of consciousness garbage. I feel like I did permanent damage to my brain that still persists to this day. I still miss it, but I'm far better off without it.
Like that other anon said, try to find something that naturally energizes you, working out does that for me but it might be something completely different for you. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you NEED drugs to write.
Just drink puerh
If you need stimulants to get any good writing done, you aren't meant for this.
>If you need stimulants to get any good writing done, you aren't meant for this.
Stephen King only wrote good books on coke. I'm sure there are many, many other examples of writers needing their substance of choice to get them in the zone.
Stephen King hasn't written good books.
>Carrie
>Cujo
>The Shining
>It
Ok moron.
Highly speculative and not substantiated by any evidence whatsoever.
Nah, man. It's not sustainable, and it leads to inconsistent writing. Great writers produce great works despite their addictions, not because of them.