As far as crushing your voice, if a writer takes everyone's criticism seriously then it might be a little disheartening for that writer to read critiques. I learned early in participating in critique groups that everyone will see your writing differently. But if more than one person sees something you should change you should look at that passage and see why they think it. Many times you are not getting across the message you have in your head. Writers don't always communicate what is in their heads and that is why critiques are so valuable. As soon as more than one person tells me something I usually go back and change it. It needs the changing. I don't fight it, even if I don't agree. When I reread it I see the mistake and take steps to correct it. Many times people will give you suggestions and though I don't always follow them I take the parts that will fit my writing style and use those.:)
The kinds of rules I think you need to follow are the ones that keep your writing intelligible. If no one can read it then that's a problem. Sometimes as little as a comma change will change the whole meaning.:)
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Re: Writing Rules
Date: 2009-04-25 05:35 am (UTC)As far as crushing your voice, if a writer takes everyone's criticism seriously then it might be a little disheartening for that writer to read critiques. I learned early in participating in critique groups that everyone will see your writing differently. But if more than one person sees something you should change you should look at that passage and see why they think it. Many times you are not getting across the message you have in your head. Writers don't always communicate what is in their heads and that is why critiques are so valuable. As soon as more than one person tells me something I usually go back and change it. It needs the changing. I don't fight it, even if I don't agree. When I reread it I see the mistake and take steps to correct it. Many times people will give you suggestions and though I don't always follow them I take the parts that will fit my writing style and use those.:)
The kinds of rules I think you need to follow are the ones that keep your writing intelligible. If no one can read it then that's a problem. Sometimes as little as a comma change will change the whole meaning.:)