Whether or not it’s true about the origin of the quote, “write drunk, edit sober” has yielded pretty strong results in creative writing. If you can fight throu

Whether or not it’s true about the origin of the quote, “write drunk, edit sober” has yielded pretty strong results in creative writing. If you can fight through the inevitable next day and look at it a couple days later and see what you were reaching for, well, it’s an iterative process no matter the state of mind. Ever read a teenager’s break up poetry? There’s a reason most of those books ended up in the trash (or archived from LiveJournal). I’m not advocating these methods, but I’m also not denigrating them.