You Never Know What Will Stick

Hand a piece of writing to a dozen different people.  Ask them what part stuck out the most to them.  I am sure you will get at least ten different responses.

Reading is an amazing experience.  Being the audience of any kind of storytelling is.  Sometimes one part of a whole work just stands out as truly spectacular.  It resonates with you.  It could be a particularly moving situation or a perfect piece of dialogue or a beautiful juxtaposition.  For whatever reason, it becomes a pinnacle scene within the work.

But that scene is different for every person.  Audience members come in with their own preferences and biases.  They have their own baggage and lives and as such different parts of a work will resonate with them.

On top of that, people change what they are thinking periodically.  The pinnacle scene for a given person may change from one reading to the next.

In short, you never know what will stick.  That's why you have to put as much out there, and as much good stuff as possible, in your writing.  You shouldn't try to stuff your work in the hopes that you will end up having something for everyone, but you should try to make as much good stuff as you can.  That's how you make something for everyone.  And for some people, nothing you make will ever stick.  And that's ok.  Just make sure that nothing they say about you sticks, either.