Some people may write for their own amusement, some hoping for big sales, and others for a limited audience, but whichever it is, you have an audience. That group of people will have a vast variety of preferences, and a writer must try to appeal to various preferences. Having said that, it is impossible to please all the people all of the time.
As we have a vast ocean of available data, there can be no excuse for not including enough data, which could be seen as another millstone for the aspiring author. When building the story, you don't want too much detail as that affects the pace of your story, but too little information can leave a reader floundering. Both of those situations can seriously reduce the size of your audience. That is the dilemma that writers need to balance, and it is the reason why some are more popular than others.
The girl in the sketch above is, in some respects, detailed. Someone writing about her could talk about young, modern, sad, fashionable or even frightened. There is enough detail to elicit a variety of responses. If you are describing an issue in your writing, then if it is important to the story, there needs to be enough detail to establish a range of ideas. You are trying to appeal to wider groups in your audience.
By comparison, the elephant is simple, has enough detail to be identifiable, but is fundamentally happy. You may disagree on the level of happiness, but there is no range of emotions.
In some respects, using models like the two above is a tool that may help you decide as to what level of detail you are going to include in your writing at any one time.
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