I worked the same way with alcohol and drugs, and my whiskey elves, my beasts, never disappointed. I mean, they didn’t always write the prettiest prose — cocaine isn’t known to instill poetry — but they usually unearthed interesting images and haunting motifs. It was completely sub/unconscious writing, with me having no idea what’d I’d done until I read the pages the next morning.
At Buzzfeed Books, Rumpus author and interviewee Joshua Mohr recalls his times as a writer struggling with drugs and alcohol on the edge of relapse.
