Performance-enhancing Drugs for Writers

Grant Snider of Incidental Comics gives us not only a comic but a poem within it.

I don't advocate drug use - unless it leads to great works of literature.

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"Having a browser open" is the surest path to distraction.

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I can relate to these, well, at least some of them. I can't have the TV on or have a browser open when I write. Following those rules helped me to write my first book, Farsprocket, and it's helping me to write the sequel.

My other ritual is to make myself chai tea for every writing session.

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I swear by transcendental caffeination! (Powered by Caffeine from the NeatoShop)

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why always with the crappy music?

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Given the behavior of most of the people shown (I think these are mostly Russian dashcam videos), they all should expect to have a brush with death. Many are walking into traffic without looking, walking into traffic while texting, driving at high speed in snowy conditions or with low visibility, or even trying to overtake an oncoming car while crossing the street!
And then there's the car in Arabia, which was probably an incident of 'drifting'; a nihilistic and suicidal practice of disaffected and bored Saudi men.
I showed some of these videos to my daughter when she was learning to drive, in order to show her the kinds of things she should be aware of for 'defensive driving'.