"You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for the artist."
-Anton Chekov
As writers, we are not called to solve problems. We only have to see the problems of the world--know they exist--and not shy away from addressing them in our work.
(Of course, readers are going to want the "story problem" resolved by the time they reach the end of the book, but the story problem is different from the more deeply defined "ills of the world"--those issues to which there are no easy answers.)
We are not the judge (though the pen is in our hand); we are merely the observer.
Be Brilliant!
~Katie~
