Writing Contest
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
April 14, 2007 3:53pm CST
You worked hard on a story for a writing contest. You wanted the accolades but you also wanted the cash prize. Your work was good and you knew it. You just felt you would win and guess what you did.
The trouble is the judges misunderstood your story completed. They were saying all kinds of glowing things about this story and how ingenius you were. But the truth is that was not what you meant in the story at all.
What would you do,
would you accept the honour and the prize and say it one that is all that counts,
or
would you say that every reader will read whatever they want into stories and justify your right to still win
or
would you tell them that they misunderstood the story and by protecting your integrity you knew you could not accept the prize?
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6 responses
@raydene (9871)
• United States
15 Apr 07
Winterose,
When you and I read the same book we will most likely get a different slant..If you meet with a book reading group or a literature class you will notice that each person picks up what they find famalier because of experiences they have had in life.
I would leave it..Obviously your story was well written or you wouldn't get the honor in the first place..Just let others take from it what they need..
Congrats,Hun..It's nice to win..
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
15 Apr 07
Raydene, this is not about me when it is I say it is, this is just a hypothetical situation what would you do?
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@luxueyuan (47)
• China
15 Apr 07
I would accepet that every reader will read whatever they want into stories and justify my right to sill win.
@raheel07 (485)
• Pakistan
17 Apr 07
I would accept it because some stories are like which can be interpreted in many ways. I myself like open ended and deep stories which make you think.
@joey_matthews (8354)
•
24 Apr 07
I'd honestly correct them on it and see if they still want to give it to me.
A lot my poems now could mean anything, some pack messages in which only I know about but if this was the case and it didn't have anything to do with my written piece I'd do as I said above.
Kudos,
~Joey
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
15 Apr 07
would you say that every reader will read whatever they want into stories and justify your right to still win
This is a fact. What ever you put into a story may not be what someone else gets out of it. Fact is that if someone can get a totally different meaning out of what you wrote, than you are probably writing better than you ever knew.
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@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
17 Apr 07
As a writer, I have control over the plot. This will be another mini story I will plot impromptu.
I will accept the honour, thank the judges, give a brief summary of what the story entails without embarassing the judges, and then justify my right to win if there is any protests.
