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Ultimately, you are always going to go against someone's reader response.

Are you aware of 'The Death of the Author' by Barthes? Basically, your intention as a writer dies once the work is out there because it is completely up to reader interpretation (this is a simplification of the theory).

The only thing you can do is write it how you want to write it, and deliver the experience you envision on the page. You can't worry about reader-response because everyone will just interpret it as they want.

It's not something you can control, essentially because once the work is in another's hands, your authorial status dies.

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