In writing, or really any art, the trick is to give just enough information that brains fill in the rest. When you start brains filling in, they experience things like excitement, intrigue, suspense, wonder.
In any expression, there are really 4 layers:
- made explicit
- automatically intuited (the audience might even think this was made explicit)
- can be figured out
- will probably never be figured out
If you can maximize the second one, you're doing really well.
