I'm reminded of this story
(All credit to SK for actually quitting his habits.)
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I'm reminded of this story
(All credit to SK for actually quitting his habits.)
I used to be far more productive when I was on drugs. The only reason I quit is because of the police harassing me. Now I'm just a shell being addicted to online media. I'm currently waiting until I can get my drivers license back which was taken. Not because I was driving under the influence, but because they simply found some stuff in my saliva. They really want to make the world safe of drugs so now I'm depressed at home trying to pay off my debt to the government because they want to keep me safe? Well it doesn't make sense but if me being punished and repeatedly being kicked to the ground is the correct way of making the world safe I will do that! Instead of being a happy guy, driving safe on the road and doing some drugs at parties sometimes, I will embrace the nights of insomnia the government forces upon me. At least I can't drink all of the problems they caused me away, as the only money I have is now considered theirs. What a great society to live in.
Stephen King has also become a shell being addicted to online media, so don't worry too much.
Fucking police. This guy could have been the next Stephen King!
Sorry to hear, that sucks. I hope you can get back on drugs safely someday.
So is there a reasonable chance Erdos had ADHD?
It is without a doubt imo
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is a great book
Let's not forget the movie, Maximum ~~Overdrive~~ Cocaine.
On a less auspicious note, 1986 also marked the nadir of the cocaine addition phase of King’s career in the form of Maximum Overdrive, the first, last and I think it’s safe to assume, only, adaptation of Stephen King’s work to be directed by Stephen King himself. In Hollywood’s Stephen King, King says, with characteristic self-deprecating bluntness, that he was“coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn't know what [he] was doing.”
That comes through loud and clear in every frame of the movie. King is credited as director here but this might be another case of a giant bag of cocaine becoming sentient and deciding to direct a movie that reflected its sensibility in its purest form. King is one of our greatest storytellers, but a movie about a crazy world full of Southern-fried assholes where all the machines suddenly become sentient and try to kill all humans sure seems like the kind of idea a sentient bag of cocaine would come up with.
Maximum Overdrive is crazy fun schlock. It's not even a guilty pleasure for me; I simply unironically and full-throatedly love it.
Not all movies need to be Citizen Kane. Sometimes a coke-fueled, overly acted B-movie is exactly what the soul needs.
You succeeded at XKCD 2184
Edit: wait, it has to have come out after 2000. You almost succeeded at XKCD 2184.
Carrie: The Musical was also around that time. It was one of the biggest flops in Broadway history. I would not be at all shocked if cocaine played a big role in Stephen King okaying a musical based on Carrie.
Cocaine "Hey Stephen."
Stephen King "Yeah, cocaine?"
Cocaine "You like musicals, right?"
Stephen King "I do now."
Cocaine "You know how people are trying to get Carrie turned into a Broadway musical?"
Stephen King "Yeah...."
Cocaine "You should a okay and use the money."
Stephen King "What should I buy?"
Cocaine "More cocaine."
Stephen King "Damn good idea."
I read this whole thing in the style of Disco Elysium
King pretty famously gave the thumbs up to pretty much anyone who wanted to adapt certain stories. It was the "Dollar Baby" program and it ran from the late 70s/early 80s to about 8 months ago.
Plus, you know, cocaine.
Meh. Doesn't work. Used to have coke every day, for years and years. Never made me a better writer.
Maybe I shoulda' tried Pepsi?
I smoked weed for thirty years and it made me a much better programmer. That app is going to be done any day now.
Edit: I haven't checked lately, but Visual Basic 3 is still what everybody's using, right?
King actually has a book on writing. And yes, it’s about having the discipline to write everyday.
If I remember correctly, he does talk about his drug use in that book. He even talks about drinking mouthwash at one point because he was that much of an alcoholic.
Yes, and he also makes the point quite clearly that drugs don't make you super productive as a writer. If anything, they make your writing worse. But it's a good excuse to live that "drugged artist" lifestyle, telling oneself that, sadly, that's how you have to do it (while opening the next beer can).
I haven't read the book, but I know he's a very dedicated and hard-working writer. I just thought the meme was funny.
Writing is like exercising your muscles. You usually have to do it regularly in order to have the ability to do something like write a novel. My mom writes novels and when she isn't, she writes short stories. She doesn't even send them to be published, they're just practice for when she writes novels.
Of course, in Stephen King's case, if has a collection of his grocery lists, someone would publish it.
I seriously wish I could just do it the way your mom is! I can't seem to get "over myself" though. I start writing and immediately think "who the fuck am I to be writing?! How fucking pretentious can I be?"
People say you aren't your job, but I can't help believing all I am is an uneducated factory worker and it affects my motivation tremendously.
He was a better writer when he was on massive amounts of drugs and alcohol.
Sometimes. Ever read the story the movie Lawnmower Man wasn't actually based on even though it says it was?
There was definitely such a thing as Stephen King doing too much cocaine.
Philip K Dick too. On drugs, whimsical, thought provoking, melancholy. Dick when sober? Unfathomably terrifying existential dread.
Do we have a timeline for that? I need to know if he was high while writing the Dark Tower novels.
He was high as a kite/drunk as hell for at least the first two, the rest he was sober/recovering since they were written from 1991-2012. He got clean in the late 80s apparently.
The Gunslinger was actually one of the first things he wrote, even before Carrie, it was a short story that he wrote in 1970, and then was submitted to and published in a Sci-Fi magazine in multiple parts in the late 70s, and then sat on it for a while. The Gunslinger as a whole wasn't published until 1982, and then re-released in 1988. The Drawing of the Three was released in 1987.
I know he blamed the weird child orgy thing in It entirely on cocaine and alcohol.
Maybe Stephen King is just saying that so no one else would know what his secret is to his success.
Checkmate!
I'm gonna have to rethink my strategy...
"In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:". I understand the author who wrote this was high too.
Or was he just interrupted by Dirk Gently before something horrible happened?
I think it was Cujo he doesn't remember, and it was because he was just drunk af the whole time
Wikipedia agrees with you:
King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all." King wrote the book during the height of his struggle with alcohol addiction. King goes on to say he likes the book and wishes he could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them on the page.
Multiple books. Cujo for sure, iirc also Tommyknockers and Maximum Overdrive.