This is the Old Strynefjell road in Norway. Good metaphor.
I have to tell myself the story before I can write it. I don't know all; but, I have a map: a vision.
I have a beginning, middle, and an end.
Projects I can see to completion have this map. Many of my still-wip projects did not and still do not have such defined elements.
I tell myself the story. I write a draft. I write another draft. The story becomes full, integrated, and comprehensible in the process.
Today, I picked up an incomplete project from the fall of '16 and in a revision, I managed to tell myself the story.
I've a map for the next one to compose now. I've characters and their traits. I have events and their meaning. I know the end. I know the killer. I even know the why.
It isn't important the reader know all those things even after finishing my tale.
It is important I know it before I compose the first full draft.
Feels better to me this way.
Might feel better for you.
Certainly it makes the hours in the composing mode much more enjoyable for me. It's easier for me to find the correct words when i know in advance what I want them to do for me.
Great looking road, eh? I'm more a "drive along the valley floor" fellow than a "drive along the ridgeline" sort.
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