I have known very few writers, but those I have known and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper.
But that will not be easy. After losing their mojo, formerly high-flying tech firms rarely recover it, with a few notable exceptions, such as Apple after Steve Jobs's second coming as boss in 1997.
" Lots of people act well, " answered the Miller, " but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also."
Good biographies of some of the greatest mathematical minds are rare: because they were polymaths, biographers who can interpret their manifold achievements for the ordinary mortal are themselves thin on the ground.