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Re:What Drives Writers to Drink? by supersrdjan on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:10PM (#25585496)
Good observation. Writing lore romanticizes dysfunctional writers,fashioning them into martyrs of the craft. But among famous writers, plenty were well adjusted people. A book called "how writers journey to comfort and fluency" is a great treatment of the subject.
Re:What Drives Writers to Drink? by watwut on Thursday December 31, 2020 @07:10AM (#25591939)
The same goes for software development where dysfunctional behavior is romanticized. Or gaming where the more dysfunctional you are the cooler you are.

It is just something about our culture that romanticize dysfunction when from afar.