Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible.…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
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