Lee Child's brilliant answer to important writing question

What question?

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/a-simple-way-to-create-suspense/?smid=tw-share

Excerpt:

So writers are taught to focus on ingredients and their combination.
They’re told they should create attractive, sympathetic characters, so
that readers will care about them deeply, and then to plunge those
characters into situations of continuing peril, the descent into which
is the mixing and stirring, and the duration and horrors of which are
the timing and temperature.

But it’s really much simpler than that. “How do you bake a cake?” has
the wrong structure. It’s too indirect. The right structure and the
right question is: “How do you make your family hungry?”