Re: League of Utah Writer's writing competition

[KingOfNerds]

I did read The Legend of the Rose, and I understood that the rose garden ate the girl for damaging the rose bush just as it ate the man, I would like to also say that your blog is better than mine.

[Samaria]

Personally, I loved the woman in the The Legend of the Rose.  So amusing.  And I think the people who didn't understand The Cliff were reading it too quickly. 

Sometimes I miss things when I read, and so I understand how people can miss somethings.  However, if you know that you have a tendancy to skip, or make up words while you're reading then I think you should read slower, or be prepared to reread.

That's the joy of critiques though.  Some are helpful, some aren't.   

[KingOfNerds]

The book is coming along nicely, the cover art is great.

[hydroman]

I dont feel sorry for the tortured author.  You may think that you have a say about what your story means when you write it and you are right you do.  However, you do not have a say about what your story means when as soon as you put it into the public forum.  It is not yours to say that someone interpereted the story wrong.  One of the things that I always hated when I have done anthing literary classes is the statement that if I did not come to the same conclusion that the author did I was not reading it in the right way.  Intellectuals telling me what the author (usually long dead and having made no comment) ment when he wrote somthing in a certain way.  Even if the author did so what.  Once I read a story it is no longer your story it is mine and I can interpret it any way I see fit.

 I liked the Rose guarden but that dosent mean that it was good (and if my literary professors are to be believed anything I like is probably missread).  It has been a while since i read it but from I believed that the rose garden fed off the anger of his wife became intelligent and ate his wife, then the little girl ant then the man.  and you know what for me that is exactly what happened.

I hope put us at odds I rather like you writeing.  My favorite is your poem about the Redwood tree.  It reminded me of myself.  Standing tall and strong and alone because I could and watching as those I cared about fell because they could not lean on me.  Streath for oneself is wasted.

I know I cant spell and that is not a good counter argument

"We were the dreamers and we are the dream it was allways thus and allways thus shall be"
Dead Poets society (i think or it is original and from me)

[Rick]

=)  Oh hydroman, please don't feel sorry for the tortured author.  I understand that the public will understand what they will from my writing, and that is fine.  I don't expect everyone to like it, and I do hope that many different meanings are found in it for people at different places in their life.  My comment was on those that judge in ignorance, who know they don't understand, who write that they don't understand, and then criticize that "obviously" the story was never MEANT to be understood.  My comment was simply: then why would I write it?  If someone doesn't get my writing, I don't really care, but why criticize that which is not understood?  I suppose this is a common issue in the world, but one I still don't understand... and maybe I'm criticizing it... Does that mean I'm criticizing what I don't understand?  Oh darn, guess I'm a hypocrite.  Maybe I’ll write a horror story about a hypocrite… hmmm…

Very much appreciate your comment.  And everyone knows that true thinkers can't spell   That is what an editor is for... and spell-check.

[kungpao]

No matter what anybody means in their writing, EVERYONE knows that in order to be taken seriously you have to be dead. (or on drugs at the time you wrote it.)  Don't worry, Richard, a ton of meanings you never meant to be found in that story will be researched in English classes around the country after you die.

[kungpao]

Or....are you already dead?  If you are, that might hurt your ego a little bit.