Originally Posted by
FrankLapidas 
Writing, actually. But haven't done any since I crawled into the bottle.
I always wondered about those photos of Ernest Hemingway sitting at his desk with his typewriter and a bottle of booze. Was that just the image he wanted to portray, or did he actually write while drunk?
Never when he was working apparently.
You only have to look at someone like Kerouac to chart the eventual and disastrous effect of drinking on an author.
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