Another few comments on creative writing
Some of our undergraduates when I was a teaching assistant in grad school said a bit cynically that you need to have substance-abuse addiction to be a famous creative writer.
There’s a novel called Confessions of an Opium Eater that I have not read. But the title is provocative. I have not taken illegal drugs (or hugs. Haha.} much, but a lot of people are addicted to something in a way.
That is all I have for now to say.