from The Making of a Story

Here’s what not to do: Don’t try to solve these mysteries. As writers, we’re not looking to provide a lesson, or a moral; we’re not therapists looking to cure our characters of pain or neurosis. Our job, as writers, is simply to render what is using precise, concrete detail.

Don’t tell us why something is, show us how it is.

Don’t give us easy answers. Rather, help us understand the precise nature of the questions.

This notion of rendering mysteries that are deliberately left unresolved can b...