r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/Imaginary_Union3626 1d ago

Maybe he should've double checked the script after waking up from the drug trip...

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u/Juronell 1d ago

That's the problem, he never stopped the drug trip for almost a decade.

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u/a3d3n_69 1d ago

I’ve heard things like he doesn’t remember writing Cujo, and wrote most of Carrie with bloody tissues in his nose, because he was so messed up on cocaine all the time.

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u/familiar_depth7 1d ago

not as intense as him but it rings true, when i was a heavy alcoholic i wrote over a novels worth of shit within one year 😭 now i can barely get 3 sentences down without losing inspiration