The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

This quip riffs on the proverb “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” swapping intentions for “works-in-progress” to satirize the self-excusing mindset of perpetual drafting. Read this way, it targets the temptation—common in artistic and intellectual life—to treat incompletion as a moral alibi: if something is always being worked on, it never has to be finished, judged, or risk failure. The line also implies that unfinished projects can accumulate into a kind of personal ruin: not because effort is bad, but because endless revision and postponement can become a habit that displaces decisive action and responsibility.