Oh, God, what an interview!

I had my interview today at the district I'm not entirely sold on. Good thing, too. There's only 2 positions open, and one of them is an on-site substitute. I think that position sounds like a good idea: you're on campus every day, you sub for teachers when they're gone or, I assume have meetings/in-services/planning time, and then help out in the computer lab/library/curriculum planning the rest of the time. However, I want my own class, so that's not what I want to do.

( Me being mean. And confused )

I dreamed a dream of life gone by

So, I had a dream last night taht i was watching a movie. It was an AU SV, Clark/Lex movie, that was either Pride and Prejudice or a Naval mystery thing. Lex was in uniform, and ... I think Clark was too. I wasn't paying much attention to the movie because I kept thinking how I should send this to MR because I thought he'd enjoy it. Then I thought how bad that was, because the cardinal rule is not to give actor's slash stuff. And *then* I realized I was watching a slashy movie with Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling, and, dude, were tehy going to have sex, and why were they in this movie, and was it maniuplated, but, no that was stupid, and ...

Then my cat woke me up by trying to eat a flower. When I took it away, she tore a piece off my credential. That'll teach me to leave it on my dresser.

Oh, and I offically hate COTW 46. It's so damn hard to write.

Why? No. Really.

Okay, so I was over at fanfic_hate, because I'm always amazed and marvled at how people can be nasty to each other (and, occasionally, there can be something throught-provoking in a lot of wank) and, lo and behold, I came across something thought-provoking.

Someone said that the thing that bothers them about some authors is, when given constructive critiscism, the giver is either bitched at, flamed, and/or ignored (emphasis mine).

And my question is: why should you be listened to?

Let me back up.

First off: I'm probably not a good person to be talking about gracefully taking constructive crit. I try. Really. I *think* I do a good job accepting beta's suggestions, and suggestions from people I know and trust. And I try, when strangers say something, to take that. I have ranted before on feedback I've gotten, but I honestly don't think that telling me to slap my inner bitch and stop taking my Lana-hate out on the character in my fic is constructive.

But, I might not be good to talk about this. *However*. While it's always good/nice/helpful to hear advice, thoughts, and critcism on a fic, sometimes, honestly, the reader's advice is just "wrong." By wrong, I mean that their interpretation is off or different from what the author intended. Yes, authorial intent doesn't count for much when against reader interpretation, but why should I change my story based on an interpretation I don't agree with? Especially when there are people who did understand what I was supposed to do? The feelign I'm getting over on ff_hate is that anyone who likes these "crap-fics" are just *lying* and saying they like it to:

A. Be popular
B. Because they like the author, or
C. because they're morons?

I don't know. I mean, I get fanfic hate. There are fics that I can't stand that other people love. But a lot of the reason I can't stand the stories are due to interpretation. I had to stop reading a series because, to me, it got creepy, but a lot of other people liked it. Should I have written to the author and told her that her story would be better if she had done a. or b. instead of c? Maybe, if I wanted to "help" her. But, on the other hand, that's awefully arrogant of me to assume I know what she's doing better than herself.

Which, I think, is why I was getting so short tempered with people who thought I was taking pot-shots with Lana because I hated her. I dont', especially in COTW. I really like my Lana. I almost am my Lana. But I was doing something deliberatly (trying to tear down her self-delusions and comfort zones in order to get her to grow. Because, face it. S1 and S2 Lana just didn't grow at all. S3 Lana, however. That's my girl.;)

So, yeah. Anyway. My question is, is a writer "obligated" to take all suggestions and criticims on their work, or is it okay for them to discard the suggestions because it's just not what they're trying to do? (Politely, of course. There's no reason to flame, bitch, or anything to someone who is, in the end, trying to do a service and help make your writing better, even if you don't agree).