Make it easy to understand the conflict

Kurt Vonnegut said, "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."

For the longest time I understood this quote wrong. I thought he meant to explain EVERYTHING and give it to the reader in such a way that they won’t have to think.

I was wrong.

What Vonnegut meant was make it cr...