Good morning, everyone and Happy Monday! It’s been a long, crazy and interesting weekend. I deleted the best line I ever wrote because it sounded too much like me—and that terrified me more than any blank page. We spend years hunting for a voice, then flinch when it answers back too clearly. So here I am, staring at the cursor again, wondering: what if originality is just the courage to bore yourself first?

Your turn. Pick one and Finish it in the comments:

1. The one rule I break in every draft is…
2. If my characters could sue me for one thing, it would be…
3. The amateur in me believes , but the craft knows .