History of the Multiverse, Part 1

[HoneyBadger]

But, if you don't write out some of them, or even most of them, then you end up without definition, any sort of consistency, or even a real setting, since everything's possible, but nothing has any meaning.

It's like one of those shows where you watch it for a whole season and then at the end, somebody wakes up from a dream and everything's completely different. Some mysteries are fine, and they add to the setting, but too many mysteries just make the setting shallow.

[Foodstamp]

Would you consider Hemmingway a bad writer? Story telling is about giving the reader 10% of the story but being aware as an author that the other 90% exists and writing your stories accordingly.

[HoneyBadger]

That goes without saying, but here, we've got about 0.0001%

Minimalism is only good to a point, and in the story of the Old Man and the Sea, we know there's an man, he's old, and he lives by the sea.