i was talking with the author stephen johnson, last night. He's written a bunch about coffee shops and bars nd and so on. And he also has commented to me that there's certain types of writing that he does most effectively sober. But they some of is his most kind of counter intuitive and maybe effective metaphors he'll generate later in the evening, you know, having had a glass of wine. i think all the best lines of my books were probably all written at some level. B, a, c, then the editing happens on coffee ri hour in the daytime.