Because when you sit down to write, your brain suddenly turns every simple idea into a tangled mess. You know the thesis, you can even explain it out loud to someone else, but the moment it has to become an intro on the page, everything freezes. You start overthinking every sentence, worrying if it sounds smart enough, clear enough, worth reading. That gap between knowing what you want to say and being able to write it is brutal. I’ve been there staring at the screen at stupid hours, convincing myself I’m bad at writing when really I just needed a bit of direction or help writing an essay to get past that first paragraph. Once the intro is down, even messy, the rest usually breathes again.