The secret to good writing

I'm reminded of this story

(All credit to SK for actually quitting his habits.)

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.

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?

King actually has a book on writing. And yes, it’s about having the discipline to write everyday.

He was a better writer when he was on massive amounts of drugs and alcohol.

Maybe Stephen King is just saying that so no one else would know what his secret is to his success.

Checkmate!

"In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:". I understand the author who wrote this was high too.

I think it was Cujo he doesn't remember, and it was because he was just drunk af the whole time

Multiple books. Cujo for sure, iirc also Tommyknockers and Maximum Overdrive.

If you’ve ever been to bangor you’d know why he was always coked out of it. Most boring “city” in Maine.

hey its Tade Thompson. He's an author too, Rosewater trilogy is some nice sci fi, would deffo recommend giving it a spin.

Tade Thompson is a great writer. love his rosewater books

Meanwhile Brandon Sanderson, it seems, calls upon the power of God