Clearly I’m not drinking enough
March 24, 2008 at 12:56 pm (Writing) (alcohol, author, Cratinus, drink, fiction, LA Times, muse, poetry, viagra, writer)
I ran across this opinion in the LA Times the other day. It essentially suggests that writing and the craft of writing is better served when approached with a drink. Not too much, mind you, but finding that delicate balance between setting the mind free and snockered. Great quote in here by Cratinus, who said “No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers.”
So then, the question clearly becomes: is the reason I am having so much difficulty finding the muse, finishing my novel, the generally poor state of my poetry, and the inability lately to put on paper any fresh ideas the simple fact that I’m not drinking enough? Is my literary impotency to be resolved by finding the bottom of a bottle, the age-old literary viagra?
Hmmm…
