Imagine this: You're driving along an unlit winding road in the darkness, the air so dense with fog, you can't see past your headlights. You grip the wheel, lean in, and drive cautiously ahead, all your attention trained on that moving patch of light in front of you. Somehow, in that blinding fog, you make it to your destination. If this sounds familiar, that's because it's the late great writer E.L. Doctorow's take on what the process of writing feels like—driving through blinding fog, unable to see where you're going. Doctorow's words are a comfort in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty. But beyond describing the writing process, his analogy grasps at what much of our careers ask of us:...
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