Nonnie · 29d
just coming in here to rant because i remember you tweeting about it a few months ago. i recently had a reader with insane reading comprehension and media literacy comment on a work of mine that i feel so overwhelmed and numb lol. on one end i feel so powerful because they've made me see metaphors and plot points i haven't even intended which makes me feel like i am on top of my game but at the same time i feel like i don't know myself at all. like i don't think i could have put all those references consciously at all, i didn't even know some of the references at all. but i guess that's the beauty of fiction, you can interpret it however you want. there's no such thing as absolute truth. thanks for listening<33
first of all thank you so much for sharing!!! this warmed my heart and i love it for you. second of all, as olive told me once when i had a similar situation, that's what happens when you're a good writer! you don't intend for things to be meaningful and then other people with fresh perspective put obvious details together and say oh, this makes a lot of sense here! it means you have good intuition and the proper skills to express what moves you even if you don't consciously realize why certain pieces of the puzzle make sense together. squeezes you.
