This thread got me thinking.
It never occurred to me that writers might be *offended* by a critique involving rewritten sentences/phrases, but apparently some people are and see it as being disrespectful.
My question, and I am being super serious here because I don't often understand other people's emotions, is:
why?
For me, if someone rewrote a phrase of mine to illustrate a point, I'd either think it was helpful and use the advice and/or the rewrite, or think it wasn't helpful and disregard it. To me, the words I write are words like any other, and aren't sacred. If I write something that could be said better or more interestingly or more clearly, a rewrite can help loosen my brain up.
What say you? How darling are your darlings?
It never occurred to me that writers might be *offended* by a critique involving rewritten sentences/phrases, but apparently some people are and see it as being disrespectful.
My question, and I am being super serious here because I don't often understand other people's emotions, is:
why?
For me, if someone rewrote a phrase of mine to illustrate a point, I'd either think it was helpful and use the advice and/or the rewrite, or think it wasn't helpful and disregard it. To me, the words I write are words like any other, and aren't sacred. If I write something that could be said better or more interestingly or more clearly, a rewrite can help loosen my brain up.
What say you? How darling are your darlings?