To enact Achebe’s counsel, start by writing a single sentence that names the change you seek—specific enough to exclude, generous enough to invite discovery. Place it where you work, and let it interrogate every choice: does this step serve the sentence? Over days, small adjustments—what to cut, where to linger, which tool to learn—will begin to line up. In time, the pattern of those choices becomes your skill, following the intention the way light follows the lamp. [...]
