so what?

A Mrs. Lake classic. Tell her anything—your day, your idea, your future—and you’d need to be ready for the reply. “So what?” she’d say. What does that really mean? Switch into show. Stop the tell. This was the week I decided that I really, truly, actually want to write. Couldn’t live without it, don’t want to even try.

So you decide to write a story. So what?

The problem is, I still don’t know how to answer that. But I'm starting to face up to it (and that's a start, right?).