I encourage all writers and authors to read this piece about Kurt Vonnegut and some of his advice about writing. A few notable [imo] excerpts are included below the link.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Greatest Writing Advice — “Literature should not disappear up its own asshole”, and other craft imperatives.
You can also exclude the reader by not telling him immediately where the story is taking place, and who the people are [and what they want].
Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred.
If I broke all the rules of punctuation, had words mean whatever I wanted them to mean, and strung them together higgledy-piggledy, I would simply not be understood. So you, too, had better avoid Picasso-style or jazz-style writing, if you have something worth saying and wish to be understood.
Readers want our pages to look very much like pages they have seen before. Why? This is because they themselves have a tough job to do, and they need all the help they can get from us.
Use the time of a total stranger [your reader] in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.