8. 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.
I don't entirely agree with this one. Some of the greatest short stories, such as "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, kept the audience entirely in the dark regarding the true nature of the story until the very end.
