It's about you as the author being right no matter what.
It's actually not, not if you mean I think the reader's interpretation is invalid. People always misunderstand me when I say the reader's not allowed to tell me what I was thinking - that's not the same thing as "the reader's not allowed to interpret my story however he/she likes."
See, I'm a reader too. I don't at all think a reader's interpretation of the story is invalid because it differs from my intent. A reader contradicting me when I say "This is what I wrote and this is my backstory and this is how these characters exist in my head as I write" is invalid, and rude, and readers like that can kiss my a**. But that's a very different thing.
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It's actually not, not if you mean I think the reader's interpretation is invalid. People always misunderstand me when I say the reader's not allowed to tell me what I was thinking - that's not the same thing as "the reader's not allowed to interpret my story however he/she likes."
See, I'm a reader too. I don't at all think a reader's interpretation of the story is invalid because it differs from my intent. A reader contradicting me when I say "This is what I wrote and this is my backstory and this is how these characters exist in my head as I write" is invalid, and rude, and readers like that can kiss my a**. But that's a very different thing.