Blogs still somewhat erratic while I'm balancing various things. An idle thought, today, on the subject of preserving mystery while avoiding vagueness or unspecificity.
Know, don't tell.
Yes, it's cute, after that oft-misinterpreted writing truism. But I think it's a useful thing to remember. You don't have to explain everything on the page -- it's probably boring if you do. But you should know the answers (or at least one reasonable version of the answers). If you don't have that, what you show in the work is going to hang together less well and by generically 'mysterious' without feeling like it has meat behind it.
Unexplained things can feel deep, iceberg-like. Or they can feel weightless and insubstantial.
So, know what you're on about. And then hoard that information like a dragon.