My Response to "Writitng without a map"

I read "Writing without a map" by Jessica Handler.  She talks about how she is a sprinter writer.  She develops a clear ending (destination) and then she writes to that point; she creates her journey following her map.  Then she decided she was going to write a novel about her life.  Like normal she planned out her beginning, and her ending.  Then her edior caused a detour in her plan because she wanted the novel to be more personal.  Now Handler has no clear ending; E.L. Doctorow once said, “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”  For Handler this a scary way to travel because she is used to being able to see her destination not going in blind like she is.