Do You Know Where You Are Going?

A conversation held earlier today, at church:

"So you when decide to write a story, is the whole thing already there in your head? Is it, then, just about writing down all you've already dreamed up?"

"Oh, goodness. No."

"No?"

"I have no idea where I am going. I live my life lost."

Or maybe it's just that I feel that way now, with this new book, so unknown, so demanding. Every line a tangle and tussle. Every line that I actually keep the next day a miracle of strange proportions.

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