More Than Asking Questions

Writers are often seen as questioners.  Writers see the world and ask why.  They ask "what if".  They make up their own worlds and then ask questions about it.  Writers are also seen as the great motivators and changers of society.  Without asking those questions, the world would not have progressed anywhere near the way that it has.  But more is needed than that.

We do not make progress by asking questions.  We make progress by trying to answer questions.

Writers change society because they ask the questions and then try to answer them.  "What if" is merely an opening door.  The rest of the story is an answer to that question, the results being there for everyone to see.

Writing is about answering questions.  They don't always need to be the deepest, most significant questions that plague the human mind; they can be perfectly trivial.  But if you aren't answering a question of some sort, then you aren't providing anything of use.  You're creating noise.