 When Sontag voiced frustration about a novel she wanted to write, Fornes insisted that they give up their evening plans, go back to the apartment they shared, sit down at the kitchen table, and just set to work.When they got home, as if to prove how simple it was, Fornes sat down to write, as well.With no experience and no idea how to start, she opened up a cookbook at random and started a short story using the first word of each sentence on the page.