For instance, I'm in Beverly Hills right now at a hotel. I told myself, "Man, it's so beautiful out here. If I ever moved to L. A. , I would probably want to buy a house in Beverly Hills. " The thing is, once I leave Beverly Hills, [I realize] there's no bodegas in Beverly Hills. Once I leave L. A. and go back to Miami or if I go visit New York, it's like, "Oh man, there's the bodega. " What I'm saying is that you can't forget the reality. Sometimes people take success and forget about reality.
Kurt Vonnegut
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.
