#jonskorvon

What little bit of badness inspires me to write?

  Green tea. Lots and lots of hot green tea.

  Okay, I know you're all terribly disappointed. Green tea is not very exciting. It's doubtful you could call it poison. Heck, minimal caffeine and packed with antioxidants, you might even be able to make a case that it's actually GOOD for you.

  But frankly, that's far preferable to what it was back in my early twenties. I distinctly remember waking up one morning at my desk with my face in an overflowing ashtray and an empty forty of St. Ides malt liquor next to me. Friends, let me tell you, I felt like death munching on a cracker and that's what I said screw this, I'd like to actually survive my twenties.

  I cut the booze out of the writing process right then and there. The smoking took a few years (or ten...), but after many failures, I kicked that one, too. So when I tell you that my favorite thing to have while I write is green tea, you know I earned that.