If authorial intent does not come across that isn't the reader's fault (unless the reader is a lazy moron--then all bets are off). If the point is unclear the author probably failed.
That said in a workshop authorial intent is important because we are all trying to help the author execute their vision.
That said in a workshop authorial intent is important because we are all trying to help the author execute their vision.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson