I am a person who likes to go off on tangents about random things as they come to me. I have been trying to think of something interesting all week to update my blog with, but my mind has been blank.....until tonight at dinner! This might seem off topic, but at the same time it is related to writing!
Alcohol + writing = ?????
So tonight at dinner, my boyfriend was enjoying an alcoholic beverage and I looked at him and thought....I wonder how many people do homework, write papers, presentations, or any other form of writing under the influence of alcohol.
As we all know, college campuses consume LARGE amounts of alcohol every week. (Madison= one of the biggest party schools in the country) My point about this is not whether it is right or wrong, but more or less how it affects our writing. What is the product?
I think that many students have the impression that alcohol is a stress reliever; therefore, large amounts are consumed. (Or even just a glass of wine while studying.) I would love to conduct a study or find one that has been done relating to this. I want to know if it actually helps students versus the grades and outcomes. Some of the best authors have been alcoholics or had some kind of addiction. For example: Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Theodore Roethke, Herman Melville, Delmore Schwartz, Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner.
What do you think? Good or Bad? Or does it matter?
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9 years ago
This study sounds both intriguing and amusing. I would imagine that students who write under the influence would have worse outcomes, but it would be interesting to see how much worse the outcome would be.
ReplyDeleteWell, I wouldn’t recommend mixing alcohol with academia. Then again, you aren’t supposed to mix alcohol with anything these days (except maybe Coke or Red Bull). Maybe I’ll right my next blog after a solid night out at Kollege Klub so we all can see the effects…
ReplyDeleteI would suggest that any sort of narrative could be enhanced by the use of alcohol at the time of writing, whereas a research paper of some sort would most likely suffer in quality. I say this because a youtube vlogger I used to watch had a ritual of getting drunk and telling stories to the camera. They ended up being quite entertaining all around. Maybe not grade-A material, but it definitely opened up the door for creativity.
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