Know where you are going

From Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland:
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take," she asked.
His response was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat," it doesn't matter."
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When we leave our homes to go on vacation, we have some idea of where we are going - where we want to end up when we complete our travel.
Sometimes we have roadmaps or directions we've written down or perhaps one of those GPS devices on our dashboard.
We need to have the same approach in our writing. We need to have a destination. How we get there can take all sorts of interesting twists and turns but there has to be an end point in mind.
I have recently written a book in which I wrote the last chapter first because I knew exactly where I wanted the story to end. I could then write the rest of the book to head in that direction.
Try that some time with your own work. Write the ending first - so you won't be like Alice.