Written Word, Spoken Soul No. 5

E. L. Doctorow

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night.

You can only see as far as your headlights,

but you can make the whole trip that way.”

— E. L. Doctorow

You don’t need the whole map.

You just need enough light to take the next step.

So what if the ending isn’t clear?

So what if you don’t know where this story leads?

Faithful writing is rarely linear—it’s lit one paragraph at a time.

And maybe that’s how the best stories are written:

by people who keep moving forward in the dark.

Write with your headlights on. That’s enough.