For the purposes of this website, a well-structured Challenge is the difference between:

• an existing situation (as one makes sense of it), and
• the specific desired outcome(s) of a process intended to change that existing situation.

Successfully overcoming a Challenge brings about a specific desired outcome—or not. Therefore,

• a well-structured challenge includes a means of assessing the success (or failure) of a "process intended to change the existing situation."

A Challenge is a Mental Construct

There are two reasons a Challenge is a mental construct:

1. Ones sense (of an existing situation) only exists in the mind (of the individual),
• and the first part of challenge is "an existing situation (as one makes sense of it)."
2. Ones desires only exist in the mind (of the individual),
   • and the second part of a challenge incorporates a "specific desired outcome."

The fact that a Challenge can be represented in prose (as in the definition at the top of this page) or graphically (as will be done with the writing challenge) does not alter the nature of a challenge; it is only a mental construct.

Writers and Challenges

The upshot of a Challenge being a mental construct is that a construct needs a maker,

• some being with the agency to create mental constructs from its own desires and sense (of things).

Therefore, a modifying a particular challenge is as simple (or difficult) as getting its maker to modify her (or his):

• sense of an existing situation, or
• desires.

So, when writers encounter a challenge (and they will),

• it is important for each writer to consider his (or her) modification options (the Challenge).