{"id":829,"date":"2004-04-10T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:31:42","slug":"829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/829\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing and alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Writing and alcohol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always warmed to the romantic notion of the late night writer, pumping out damning prose on a rattling typewriter, a bottle of whisky on the desk and Frank Sinatra on the Dansette.<\/p>\n<p>So how come I can barely write a word of sense once I&#8217;ve had anything more than a half shandy? Not only am I crap at writing when drunk, I can&#8217;t even do it with a hangover either.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve been a freelance writer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internet-magazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Magazine <\/a> for years and every month I work myself up into a state trying to finish articles on time. I&#8217;ve no idea why writing is such a battle for me &#8211; the articles usually come out fine in the end &#8211; but the writing process always seems to involve stress and panic in equal measures.<\/p>\n<p>When I was writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-hits.net\" target=\"_blank\">my book<\/a>, I was totally unbearable &#8211; it was a nightmare! The amount of self-discipline involved was horrendous and the pub seemed to be calling my name whenever I sat down at night.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I got the book finished in time, and I&#8217;ve nearly finished my Internet Mag articles too &#8211; with a hangover still lingering!<\/p>\n<p>Look out Dylan Thomas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing and alcohol I&#8217;ve always warmed to the romantic notion of the late night writer, pumping out damning prose on a rattling typewriter, a bottle of whisky on the desk &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-829","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}