It being summer, and me wanting to be a creative writing major and being a avid drug user, I was suprised the other day when I figured the two might go together. I recently started reading Hunter S Thompson, who as most of you probably know, was a awsome writer who wrote about his experiences on acid, mescaline, etc.

I'm thinking of trying to do that kind of style, not imitate it, but branch from it, and was wondering if any of you have experience with writing while intoxicated. A idea I thought of would be to use a tape recorder to capture whatever thought pops up in my head, and type it later, and string it together, to prevent the buzzkill of sitting down and going on a computer during a trip.

Good idea? Experiences? What kind of drugs would be most interesting to record my thoughts on?

What I do is I write my poems or short stories while high, but then I go back and revise them when I'm sober.

I think Rizzo used to do a bit of this, if I recall correctly.

I've heard of people using tape recorders for trips. So I guess it would work. I don't see why not.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

And as for drugs to write on. Well, I remember reading a poem this year written by some guy while he was on opium. Personally, I'd start with marijuana and go from there.

I remember his account of being on mescaline for the first time. Was a great read. Songs Of The Doomed, I think...

Also, Great Shark Hunt when he decides they can't land in Texas with their current stash from their flight from Mexico, so him and a friend eat a bunch of MDA, LSD and Seconal on the plane then he tries stuffing like 10 spansules of speed into the tongues of his shoes.

drugs don't really affect my artistic side. i have always been into playing guitar, writing, drawing etc and when i get high nothing changes except for my focus (which increases).

edit- as for drugs that make writing better, in my personal experience i have found opium, oxy (any opiate, alcohol in small doses, coke and amphetamine to all help a lot.

Pot is always good for free thinking. Acid too.

I have a microrecorder I use to keep track of ideas.

Just don't try to record music on acid. I tried it once and spent 6 hours trying to mix it to no avail.

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Cool responses guys. I have some DXM, a eigth of some good weed, and a little jack daniels...I plan on recording tonight on these. starting small and hopefully working up to some psychs maybe if I like the way this stuff turns out. If any of you guys want, I'll post the transcript later tonight of what I come up with...

myspace.com/thencomestheembrace

recorded on opium, oxycotin, a small amount of cocaine and bong hits.. hence why i got so impatient and made it an mp3 without mixing it properly.

hunter thompson did kill himself right?

Yes, I believe he shot himself when he was old

i really like absurdity writing i just can't find enough of it though its a shame. any way you should check out justin curfman hes an underground writer/video maker. he writes in this style...simply mind blowing i promise. anyway here is my contibution...

A group sits at a picnic table made entirely out of meat. It is hot and they are all hungry. As they sit in hunger the table starts to cook. They start to salivate and soon after they die of starvation. They were all vegans. They become a new layer to the table.

the few times i took creative writing like classes, happened to coinside with periods of poly-drug use in my life, which therefore influenced my writing to a degree...


in which i got A's, and wrote a cool thing about kicking dope sick as shit, a year after the fact, high as shit on dope! haha

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In 2005 for what some people believe to have been chronic pain issues; or just the fact he felt he got everything he could/wanted to out of life.

these were my feelings on dxm

see the colors swirling past
the endless motion, different tracks
splitting time and splitting hairs
i am no longer self aware

Adderall for length.

Last year I had English first period and before school I'd pop a few addys.

I'm not the best writer...but I remember on multiple occasions writing A+ papers on adderall and looking back wondering how the fuck I did that. I also remember writing a page and a half for a simple question that I could have answered in a paragraph or two.

Other than that...I don't really know.

Snort some dialudid. You'll become a class writer. I did it before state testing and wrote a fucking novel for a science essay thing.

Plus I've written some songs while nodding out. It's pretty cool

drugs/alcohol only make it seem like writing will be easy. your shit ass ideas will be the same sober and high.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Your ideas make sense to you when you're high, but when you're sober, they are non-sensical, crazy-talk.

Although I usually do think my ideas developed while high are interesting and useful to the sober world. When I'm sober.

when i was really baked i wrote a story about a drug dealer whose brother was killed and took over the family business in san diego
great read
lots of drugs

yeah but drugs and creative writing are a great mix

I had a ritual a couple months ago when i'd go for a few smokes on this bench near my house then go home and write.

Got a couple chapters done, but i've stopped now because i've transcribed everything neccesary from that particular high.

My plan is to go on a mission or something, just pack my bag with supplies and cross the country documenting everything then transcribing it at a later date - In a sober mind.

Want to get some psychs for that, and various uppers as well. Alcohol doesn't help with my creativity in the slightest and weed knocks me out

Finally, someone who thinks like I do!
I prefer drinking and then smoking marijuana. About maybe 3-4 shots of rum/coke, and a fat j. I, at least, am known to write... interesting... things while drunk. I apparently made some kind of "revelations" about humankind, time, sciences, etc. while intoxicated. Don't know why or how but I seem to write better, syntactically and gramatically and all when intoxicated. It just seems to give me some kind of motivation. If you don't mind, can you send me a couple of things that you write? I always enjoy reading other people's work and especially if you're going to take after Thompson I'd love to read some of your stuff. You can message me/reply to this if you want to read some of mine.

Have a good time man. You're destined for fame.

thanks man, those are pretty good examples of the type of music i play, but i also play a lot of acoustic chord-oriented shit as well. you got an aim addy or anything? e-mail your aim at regroupstrategize@hotmail.com

shotgun to the face.

and his suicide note was baller as fuck.

Cordova, post some of your stuff- I dont really have anything solid yet to add as this is semi uncharted territory for me..

556, I think i have that little aim guy on my totse profile, but I'll email you it incase I'm wrong

Kubla Khan by Coleridge:

http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleri...ubla_Khan.html

It doesn't make much sense but it sure is nice to read.

Sorry but I can't help but wonder if you're joking or just misinformed because he shot himself with a handgun.

sometimes when im spun or doped out ill smoke a some bud and start drawing, writing poems, songs, and stories.

its fun to write when im tripping to but sometimes it doesnt come out real clear and it takes a little deciphering


lol, hunter s thompsons like one of my idols by the way. i consider myself to be a lot like him actually, and i've had people tell me that i am

Fuck yeah, drugs are great for creative writing. Personally I like Uppers, E, or a combination.

I find combining lower doses of uppers with hallucinogens such as acid help[s the tripped out thoughts flow through easier. Plus uppers are just great for me anyway since I have symptoms of ADD and they give me the focus I need.

It's abstractly about the sublimality of sex. You have to analyze poems for them to make sense.