The funniest lie writers tell themselves is "i'll just write one sentence to get started." One sentence. Just one. To warm up. And then three hours have passed and you're 2,000 words deep into a scene you did not plan and someone has a dead mother now and the whole timeline shifted and you missed dinner and the one sentence is still technically in there somewhere, buried on page four, doing nothing, completely unrecognisable. You did not write one sentence. You never write one sentence. Stop saying one sentence.





















