There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.
But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.