What Do You Want From A Review?

Emotional please.
If I need an Editor to correct punctuation or disjointed sentences (am I really disjointed???) I would look up Mrs Gibbs (3rd grade teacher) and have her explain to me what a participle is.. (Particle....Partical... Principal... Pirnciple!!)
I welcome any and all reviews based upon my ideas. And If anyone can expound upon them, I welcome you!.
In other words, If anyone has any Ideas on a direction they think I might Travel, Please feel free to let me know.
P.S. I also welcome anyone who tells me that my comma was misplaced. (Damn that comma.... Been looking for that little bitch everywhere!)

I would like a bit of both emotional and technical, as its interesting to hear people's reactions to my work and how they interpret it, but also as you can probably see I am very careless when it comes to grammar. All in all I want honesty, I don't want 'Nice this was great' type comments I get those on myspace and sometimes i just feel people haven't even bothered to read but left a comment anyway. I welcome constructive criticism and want to be challenged in order to grow that said don't come at me with 'this is a heap of shit' you may not like my response. I will try to offer the same in return though haven't reviewed in depth for a while so bare with me may be a little rusty..

I would like to read some of your work. Where should I go?

i want reviews from the new york times, and criticisms from people who are totally and utterly disturbed by what and how i write. what do i want people to take from my writing? i want people to feel and think. if what i write makes you feel and/or think, leave me a line about what it made you feel or think-- if you like. i don't really need reviews to validate the work. that seems silly at this point, doesn't it? i'm such a pompous ass.

i totally and completely agree with this. i read the other day that when morrissey goes into the studio to begin working on an album, he isn't technical at all. but he will tell his producer about a film or a painting and will want a song to feel like what he's described. this is how i want people to react to my writing. i want people to get a certain feeling from it. i really don't care about specifics or whether or not you think i'm a good writer. i know how i write. i know how i feel when i write. i want to know how my writing makes you feel.

Stops you from writing?
Reader feels what they want?
Regardless of what you want them to?
Afraid of what your readers think?
Setting yourself up?

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Dont stop writing. Stopping is not worth it.
Of course the reader feels what they want. You wrote a work, and now it belongs to them.
Yes indeed... It's out their now. you dont control anyones thoughts. Nor should you want to.
Never be afraid of what your readers think. If you have one single reader, then you are a success.
If you thought that you were setting yourself up, then why are you here?

Intensity and introspection is a good thing, and I stand transfixed.....OK, Times up, I gotta sit down.
Keep writing...................

does it really need to be all that technical? i never understood how putting a box on creativity made sense. it's an oxymoron of sorts. i know great fiction writers who write their fiction to get an idea out there that wouldn't be grasped if it were written as truth, theory, or essay. it's all over the place. i don't read much fiction, but when i do it's got to have hook. for me the hook is in the realism of the dialogue or the creativity or philosophy in the idea surrounding the plot. if the fiction is written template style, where you have this many characters and they all fit into the mold of what someone else said was the norm, like here's your happy ending, your hero, your villian, your lesson learned, type thing. everyone lives for the twist more than the climax anyway. we all want to be suprised these days, templates are boring. and if you are trying to say that fiction, speculative, or otherwise, cannot make you think, then you just can't make people think. it's not in you. i think most of the people who write with no intention of making the reader think or feel, are probably writing how-to manuals. the types of things that the writer does the thinking for you. that's cool if it's your gig, but don't let worry about what others think stop you from writing. if you piss enough people off with what you've written, you'll be famous. just my ten cents, take it or leave it.

Hugh Pops up and flits along looking for spare change, finds a ten cent piece and his wings hum in glee. He then reaches in his pocket and flips a shiny nickle over his wings for someone else to find.

When it comes down to it, I'm not exactly sure what I want from a review. In part I want at least some people to "get it" just so I have the impression that there really is someone out there and that I'm not just spitting in the dark. I don't want to be told how wonderful I am or the writing is, though I wouldn't mind a compliment if it was in the process of understanding what I am trying to get across. Then there is the problem, perhaps the old psychoanalytic one, that what writers think they are getting across and what they are actually getting across may only be distantly related.

The other problem I have with knowing what I want in a review has to do with figuring out why I write. I would love to write the great American (or English language) short poem, when I am writing poetry, or a great music lyric, but when I am writing prose I have no interest whatsoever in writing great LITERATURE. When I read prose I want to be entertained and when I write it I want to entertain. It may be through humor, or sarcasm, or fast pacing, or through the characters I create, but it won't aiming to be Saul Bellow or Cormac McCarthy.

A bit of both; I'd love for my work to one day be good enough that it sends people spiralling off into thought-provoking wormholes of the mind - but what I want most is help to improve, and when people offer up their life stories...well, that doesn't help me. Sorry. I'm nuts-and-boltsy; the kid who advises you on where's best to insert a semi colon. To me, that's nice because it's helpful. From me, don't expect much else because I suck.