The next day, after work, I sit down at my computer and try to write a new story. It takes me about an hour to write the first sentence. When I look back over the first paragraph, I find it nearly unreadable. Not only is it obvious and stale and completely unoriginal, the prose itself is clumsy and ugly. It's worse than some of my highschool English projects. I turn off the computer without saving the file, and go to sleep feeling a mounting sense of dread