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Do you know where you are going? I asked yesterday, and I loved the diversity of responses—the absolutely and the never, the somewhere in between.

I live my life lost, I said, and what I meant by that is this: When writing any story I am, from the very start, grounded in place. I am grounded in voice and in mood and in an elixired idea, and soon—perhaps thirty pages in—I have a general feel for structure.

And yet and nonetheless I feel strange, off kilter, lost because at first and for a very lo