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7/2/2025, 6:31:28 AM
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Not the person you replied to, but I would like to counter the relation you make between drugs and creativity. Drugs remove the inhibition that prevents personal and honest writing, which then translates into perceived creative impulse.
It is tremendously difficult to write deceptively because it inspires the personal critic. The skill of writing only appears later, when one permits themselves to write freely. This is why so many people recommend, and rely upon, "word vomiting" to produce drafts. The two ends of mental energy are conducive to writing for this reason; inebriation reduces the capacity to lie, while stimulants propel thought with such velocity that self-criticism becomes a token resistance to the flow.
Not the person you replied to, but I would like to counter the relation you make between drugs and creativity. Drugs remove the inhibition that prevents personal and honest writing, which then translates into perceived creative impulse.
It is tremendously difficult to write deceptively because it inspires the personal critic. The skill of writing only appears later, when one permits themselves to write freely. This is why so many people recommend, and rely upon, "word vomiting" to produce drafts. The two ends of mental energy are conducive to writing for this reason; inebriation reduces the capacity to lie, while stimulants propel thought with such velocity that self-criticism becomes a token resistance to the flow.
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