An actual exchange

I’m on several mailing lists for computer book authors. Exchanges like this one are not uncommon; fortunately, I didn’t have a diet Coke in hand or I would probably have sprayed it all over my monitor.
One person wrote:

I guess this all begs the question – do we need a 12 step program? How to get away from the addiction? Is there some equivalent to methadone for the high we get after writing the 70th page of the week?

To which the immediate response was:

You get HIGH? I’m writing the wrong stuff. I get nauseated.

Heh.