There's this Joan Didion quote from her Paris Review interview:

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What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

I'm feeling this right now. The pre-write is so seedy like the head of a sunflower. Once I make that first choice and commit: landscape or portrait?

Then, outline format or narrative? Nothing's on the page yet and all the juicy fun is drained.

But, there's always rewrites and fresh projects to dream about,
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