[quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1296322819' post='78236']
You will notice that I included the parenthetical note "If you intended it at all."
What I mean is that without attempting suspense, your story is worse than it would have been had you consciously attempted it. I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
But obviously, any story you write is up to the reader's subjective perspective to determine the subject matter and worth. So really an opinion is just that, and to criticize an opinion is quite impossible. You can't tell me my interpretation was any less valuable or worthwhile than your intention, because the very nature of literature relies on the equality of responses.
I agree that grading stories is ludicrous, but it must be done, and I've given my best attempt to be fair and just in my gradings. You may pick apart my critical perspective as a misunderstanding, but if you expect your message to ring loud and clear, perhaps you should spend more time talking to yourself. You are, after all, the only person that will see precisely what you meant your readers to see.
Awi
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I totally agree with this, however my response was not for the grading but because of the reason I felt that the critic of this story didn't tried to connect as he/she should do (from his/her own reasons off course). Not every piece is on equal stadium of perception , not every story needs the same level of attention, not every language can be understand by just knowing its grammatical, morphological and semantical characteristics. The plot sometimes is not the plot itself. For the implicit reader this should be a tenet.
And as you said you rated this story subjective, telling that it would be better if 'you do that or that' not as it is, not by floating perspective but from yours.
There is not point in continuing this discussion as it ends in blind alley. My intention is done, a prod.