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posted by [personal profile] evilmagnus at 06:45am on 25/04/2007
Anyone is entitled to say "You're doing it wrong."
And you're perfectly entitled to say "Fuck off."

And that is how Balance is restored to the Force.

If I could tease one word out of this, it would be 'process'.

A published work is not a process - It's done. End product. Improvements come in the next edition. It's fair to criticize a product precisely because the publisher has said "Here are my wares, what do you think?"

A creative process, though, is a moving target. Suggestions to help are fine, if asked for (via an online discussion, whatever) but to criticize a process for not being 'right'? That's something that's only valid when there's an objective framework behind it - like, say, commercial airline pilots skipping the checklists and ignoring ATC, then saying "But we landed OK, right?".

Creativity has eluded objective measurement. There can be no 'right' or 'wrong', only suggestions and 'works for me'.

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